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Sends Light Anguish (Meta)

· Di benchen71 · Pubblicato 2024-12-10T05:00:36.608Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a story book character
I have a feeling I will need to explain the title of this puzzle in the comments! I woke up with this meta idea in my head, and I really couldn't wait to see if I could get it all into a grid. The answer to that is "yes", but it took a few different grids (and a couple of drinks!) to achieve. (If you're interested, the images above were generated by DALL-E using the prompt "Sends light anguish".) The answer to the meta is a story book character. Nudges available here: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=187846#p187846
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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  • benchen71 costruttore · 2024-12-10T05:00:36.608Z
    The title of this puzzle is supposed to sound like "Sounds Like English". "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut" is a version of the well-known story that was written in 1940 by a professor of French named H. L. Chace, who wanted to show his students that intonation is an integral part of its meaning. It was published in a book entitled "Anguish Languish". See https://annex.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/ladle/ for the complete story. Alternatively, have it read to you here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az3D1iEXAiY
    • DCBilly 3s · 2024-12-10T15:02:00.268Z
      This rang a bell but I wasn't familiar with the source. I must have heard it from my father, who was a fan of Lewis Carroll and Pogo among other wordplay sources. Deck Us All With Boston Charlie!
      • whimsy 🤓11:00 · 2024-12-10T15:24:34.024Z
        Now I'm picturing something somehow related to Charlie in the MTA. 🥊🎄🎶😄
        • woozy 🤓10:04 · 2024-12-10T16:32:14.076Z
          Charley may be stuck in the MTA but Nora's freezing on the trolley. And... Alas No... Trolley Molly don't love Harold. So sad.
          Now... if you want an exercise in frustration, try to find someone who doesn't find that funny and attempt to explain why it is... sigh...
          • DrTom 3s · 2024-12-10T19:07:47.098Z
            Walla Walla Wash and Kalamazoo - two favorite cities! But there is another carol that I love:
            The worst towel, the angles hid Ray
            Was for curtains pour ship hordes
            Where river day lei
      • Darth 🤓7:34 · 2024-12-10T14:53:11.902Z
        I love Charades. :D Thanks for the background info you posted here, Ben. Interesting.
        • whimsy 🤓11:00 · 2024-12-10T14:22:42.315Z
          Aha! Thanks for the background info to clear up the title conundrum! I solved by following the suggestions regarding the game of Charades in 1A and 70A. AFTER, that is, spending quite some time trying to use Rot 10, Caesar's code!!! Can you say "German guys that were in a book?" Answer: Read Herren! Thanks, Ben, this was fun for me to finally see/get the path -- but I gotta warn you, woozy's not gonna like it!😄
          • DrTom 3s · 2024-12-10T18:59:05.006Z
            Whimsy, really, what kind of heartless brute would have a ROT 10 as a mechanism...
          • woozy 🤓10:04 · 2024-12-10T16:23:42.757Z
            Took me longer than it should have. But when you get it, you get it.
            • KayW 🤓3:27 · 2024-12-10T16:24:24.611Z
              This was fun! Good job coming up with all those "sounds like" words. Thanks Ben!
              • hoover 3s · 2024-12-10T16:51:55.295Z
                OMG, I have a copy of Ladle Rat Rotten Hut that my parents had in their library. It's probably an original.
                • DrTom 3s · 2024-12-10T18:58:09.511Z
                  Well the path was clear, and not through a dark forest, but it was certainly fun. I am wondering if I am seeing "Easter Eggs" or "Yeast or legs" when I see RED, EAT, HELLO in the GRID and Lobos, Brute and "Have a bite" in the clues????
                  I loved the "ladle store he" behind the title and read/listened to it.
                  • HeadinHome 🤓1:19 · 2024-12-10T19:16:44.870Z
                    The tip for me was of course 70A “sounds like” (Sends Light). At first I thought the person’s first name might sound like Anguish, or you were cluing the sound-alike with the storybook characters (Belle, Ratcatcher, Alice… BRA??). Then I tried saying what looked like themers really fast… LADLESOUP little stoop? Is that a hobbit? RATCATCHER red ketchup? … OHHH - the FIRST words! LADLE RAT ROTTEN HUT. I know her!
                    . In the same vein, here’s the concept, with French: the character “ Un petit d'un petit “ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mots_d%27Heures:_Gousses,_Rames:_The_d%27Antin_Manuscript
                    • boharr 3s · 2024-12-10T20:40:32.294Z
                      Sounds didn't help but Google did it for me.
                      • Dave C 3s · 2024-12-10T21:44:28.058Z
                        After focusing on "first word sounds like", it came quickly. I didn't get the meaning of the title until I saw Ben's explanation.
                        • LarsCaine 🤓15:56 · 2024-12-10T22:25:46.611Z
                          The title sounded like Send Sly Tang Wish to me. boharr gave me the push that I needed. Nice one!
                          • woozy 🤓10:04 · 2024-12-11T05:12:42.602Z
                            I kind of thought I had to do the actions of the themers or something about charades and maybe that would give me the first word of the character. Took me a embarrassing long time to notice the themers had two words we could take them and the sounds like.
                            • MatthewL 🤓5:05 · 2024-12-11T15:44:59.214Z
                              Had the first two nudges and even had "SOUNDS LIKE ENGLISH" solved, but could not get the answer until Nudge 3. When it clicks, it clicks. Thanks for the puzzle, Ben!
                              • Carolyn 3s · 2024-12-11T21:31:02.689Z
                                Finally got back to this. Saw the two clues but never put it together. Very cute!
                                1A
                                Number of fingers held up to indicate "first word" when playing Charades
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                                Orizzontali
                                1. 1A
                                  Number of fingers held up to indicate "first word" when playing Charades
                                2. 4A
                                  "Mean Girls" actress Lindsay ___
                                3. 9A
                                  Drive back
                                4. 14A
                                  Recycling receptacle
                                5. 15A
                                  6 down singer
                                6. 16A
                                  Fill with joy
                                7. 17A
                                  Back in time
                                8. 18A
                                  Disney heroine who longs for "more than this provincial life"
                                9. 19A
                                  Windows release after XP
                                10. 20A
                                  Dame Nellie ___
                                11. 22A
                                  Serve the first course, perhaps
                                12. 24A
                                  Morning rouser
                                13. 25A
                                  Yello song featured in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"
                                14. 26A
                                  Tummy muscles
                                15. 28A
                                  Deeply regretful reply
                                16. 32A
                                  The Pied Piper, for example
                                17. 38A
                                  Source of acorns
                                18. 39A
                                  Dull pain
                                19. 40A
                                  From the Orient
                                20. 41A
                                  "Another" Spanish word
                                21. 42A
                                  35 down's boss
                                22. 43A
                                  Exceptionally bad fortune
                                23. 45A
                                  Roving adventurously, like a knight
                                24. 48A
                                  Top colour in a traffic light
                                25. 49A
                                  "___ entered on his head, a helmet on each foot, a sandal in his hand he had, his trusty sword to boot" (at least, I think that's where the punctuation goes)
                                26. 53A
                                  Exposed wood in a ceiling
                                27. 57A
                                  Ring of stones marking the site of a prehistoric dwelling
                                28. 60A
                                  One of eight popes
                                29. 61A
                                  Moving day rental
                                30. 62A
                                  Adversary
                                31. 64A
                                  ___-de-France
                                32. 65A
                                  Sip your "Old Fashioned" slowly
                                33. 66A
                                  Fast Amtrak train
                                34. 67A
                                  Conk out
                                35. 68A
                                  Did a blacksmith's job
                                36. 69A
                                  Big brawl
                                37. 70A
                                  Body part touched by one's forefinger to indicate "sounds like" when playing Charades
                                Verticali
                                1. 1D
                                  55 down's surname
                                2. 2D
                                  Actor ___ Hawthorne of "The Madness of King George III"
                                3. 3D
                                  Sherlock's younger sister in a Netflix movie series
                                4. 4D
                                  Los Lobos song with a brilliant guitar solo
                                5. 5D
                                  Poetic homage
                                6. 6D
                                  Chart topper in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia for 15 across
                                7. 7D
                                  Islamic deity
                                8. 8D
                                  Impoverished
                                9. 9D
                                  Uncover
                                10. 10D
                                  Elijah's successor
                                11. 11D
                                  El ___, Texas
                                12. 12D
                                  "___, Brute? Then fall 49 across"
                                13. 13D
                                  ___ of faith
                                14. 21D
                                  Reinforce
                                15. 23D
                                  Successful student
                                16. 27D
                                  Appetizer
                                17. 29D
                                  Annual Prez. speech to Congress
                                18. 30D
                                  Drug agent
                                19. 31D
                                  "I heard you the first time!"
                                20. 32D
                                  Political campaign
                                21. 33D
                                  Taiwanese computer maker
                                22. 34D
                                  Hammer-wielding god
                                23. 35D
                                  Exec. who might have to resign in the wake of a data hack
                                24. 36D
                                  4 down or 6 down, for example
                                25. 37D
                                  Have a bite
                                26. 41D
                                  More mature
                                27. 44D
                                  Interstellar clouds
                                28. 46D
                                  Point the finger at
                                29. 47D
                                  Performed perfectly
                                30. 50D
                                  "Get lost!"
                                31. 51D
                                  Wonderland visitor
                                32. 52D
                                  Paint the town 48 across
                                33. 54D
                                  Tolerate
                                34. 55D
                                  See 1 down
                                35. 56D
                                  Contemptuous look
                                36. 57D
                                  Attila's army
                                37. 58D
                                  Informal refusal
                                38. 59D
                                  Tropical tuber
                                39. 63D
                                  Bitter beverage
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