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There's a Time and a Place

· Di Mikey G · Pubblicato 2024-01-20T18:00:35.422Z

Meta Prompt
[Level 2] The answer to the meta is a 6-word title.
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  • Mikey G costruttore · 2024-01-20T18:00:35.422Z
    Answer: AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
    Explanation: Two things are going on here, one perhaps more obvious than the other. 1. There are four symmetric clues that reference a "certain amount of time": FEB2OOO, FORT, SEPT, ONEWEEK. Those certain amount of times - 29, 14, 30, and 7 days - give us a grand total of 80 days when added together. 2. A series of words surround the grid, all clued in a somewhat anodyne way: WIDE, BANK, MUSIC, CUP, CITY, POWER, TOUR, BOOK, PEACE, MAP, VIEW, WEARY. All of these words can be preceded by WORLD to make a new legitimate word or phrase (note the current clue also makes sense when that occurs).
    So, we're going AROUND THE WORLD...IN 80 DAYS! (Note all the time-related words are fully inside the center border indeed). A fitting puzzle for meta #80, though I've never read the book!
    • Hector 🤓6:54 · 2024-01-20T18:24:39.059Z
      Very nice; thank you!
      • Philip Chow 🤓8:20 · 2024-01-20T18:51:13.513Z
        i saw the outer edge of WORLDS... but i failed at math... instead of normalizing all the certain amount of time to the same common unit of days, i added 2 for february + 20 for the year + 14 for the fortnight + 9 for september + 7 for the week = 52... 52 sounded important... there are 52 weeks in a year! i'm like that can't be a coincidence... reading your explanation is much more satisfying (i like how feb 2000 you accounted for the leap day! which is oddly and exception to an exception to an exception... every 4 years (exception 1), except every 100 years (exception 2), except every 400 years (exception 3))... great puzzle - the border must've been difficult to fill
        • boharr 2s · 2024-01-20T19:23:38.910Z
          Extra clever one. Thanks, Mikey.
          • Meg 3s · 2024-01-20T19:09:17.115Z
            That was fun! Thanks, Mikey.
            • FrankieHeck 🤓8:19 · 2024-01-20T19:32:48.846Z
              Fun puzzle! I took a chance after finding the "time," and didn't even notice all the "places." I took a moment to appreciate them after reading your explanation, though. Nice work.
              • whimsy 🤓16:15 · 2024-01-20T20:27:48.431Z
                I knew those cats reminded me of something! Excellent, Mikey! (I didn't make any math mistakes but instead on my first submission I made a typo! :-P)
                • whimsy 🤓16:15 · 2024-01-20T20:39:48.775Z
                  Addendum -- There was a lot going on! I missed the border WORLD but I did think of BOOK as meaning it was a book title we were looking for (along with Novel/NEW) and I thought there might be the name of a CITY in the title. And Gah! Gotta start payingbetter attention to the puzzle #; you even had the kindness to remind us with Roger Maris!!
                • MatthewL 🤓13:36 · 2024-01-20T20:25:33.083Z
                  Fun one, Mikey! I confess, though, that I never saw the second part (World Wide, etc.) Just saw "80 Days", and that book was the first one I thought of. Thanks for the Saturday afternoon diversion!
                  • hoover 3s · 2024-01-20T20:45:26.438Z
                    Yet another extremely clever numerically themed meta from MikeyG! I found the WORLD AROUND the grid, er, missing from around the grid. Now to backsolve the 80 days! (Or just read the comments :) )
                    • Mikey G costruttore · 2024-01-21T02:45:56.932Z
                      This actually makes me really happy! I was worried most might just get the 80 days' in the middle. If that were the only piece of the metanism, of course, it wouldn't justify being a 15-by-15!
                      • hoover 3s · 2024-01-21T05:58:18.630Z
                        TBH I just plucked the 80 from the puzzle number. WORLD + 80 was enough to solve it.
                    • Abide 2s · 2024-01-20T20:49:20.333Z
                      I finally got an early guess in (10% of grid filled) based on the number 🍾🎆! After that I knew where to look and that helped filling the toughish lower half. Nice one!
                      • Darth 15:39 · 2024-01-20T21:18:48.582Z
                        It was the answer I WANTED it to be, but I needed your explanation to understand how it all fit together. ;) Thanks, Mikey.
                        • KayW 🤓9:08 · 2024-01-20T23:31:12.215Z
                          Very well done!! Oddly enough, this "level 2" was much harder for my particular brain than last week's "level 4". I didn't think to add all the days together until I remembered that you are very good at matching the meta theme to your puzzle number. I wondered if they could all add up to 80, and - tada! Thanks for another puntastic meta!
                          • Mikey G costruttore · 2024-01-21T02:44:52.552Z
                            I looked desperately for another clue or another way to signal "adding" up the days, but it was too clumsy for it to work. And I definitely had to add those together at least 5 times before publication to make sure it was indeed 80!!
                          • woozy 26:00 · 2024-01-21T02:19:50.350Z
                            Ah... now I get it! Wow.... that was clever! but had to take wild flights of guesses... that worked! Wow, though! That's pretty amazing even for you.
                            • Mikey G costruttore · 2024-01-25T17:21:36.064Z
                              Most of the trial-and-error was finding a grid that worked. Probably at least 10 attempts or so!
                            • woozy 26:00 · 2024-01-21T02:17:09.954Z
                              A win's a win and I'll take it but I'm going to try and think this through before I peek at the explanation..... Hmm.... So how are the 80 days in four clues somehow around a world (and in what sense are they "in" the days).... hmmmm.
                              • woozy 26:00 · 2024-01-21T02:29:14.345Z
                                But.... (you know I have to nitpick) ... isn't this "The World Around 80 days in the World"?
                                • SamKat9 🤓16:32 · 2024-01-21T02:39:26.381Z
                                  This was the answer I was hoping it would be, but I added 29+14+7+21 (the actual date mentioned in the EWF song). I got 71, and when I couldn't find anything to give me a 9, I tried anyway. Thank you for the explanation and brilliant construction!
                                  • Berto 4:07 · 2024-01-21T04:55:39.880Z
                                    Finally decided to add up all the days and got 80. Guessed from there. Didn’t see the World- entries until pointed out. Fun one!
                                    • Laura M 🤓16:45 · 2024-01-23T04:59:31.477Z
                                      Nice!
                                      • lbray53 3s · 2024-01-23T14:02:51.568Z
                                        I guessed and backsolved to the mechanism. This is so clever in retrospect and explains why some of the clues felt incomplete.
                                        I was fixated on the fact that there were six years in the clues as well as six (actually seven if you counted both Japan's) in the clues. I wasted a lot of Google time trying to connect the years and places!
                                        • Mikey G costruttore · 2024-01-25T17:21:12.263Z
                                          Ooof, I might have whittled those down if I caught them. I needed to be careful referencing time and forgot that years often slip in, as I like to do! The joys of rabbit holes, right??
                                        • kurtalert 🤓7:38 · 2024-01-24T01:38:19.721Z
                                          Leap day... leap day! Argh. 80, not 79. LOL. Good one, thanks Mikey!
                                          • Joe 🤓9:30 · 2024-01-26T18:30:01.184Z
                                            Hoo boy. I struggled. Didn't think to add up the days (probably would have gotten it earlier if I had). Didn't notice the border words (had to get a nudge). Was distracted by the word "time" in the ESPN clue. And, yeah, last week's I got in like 30 seconds. But this one was a workout!!
                                            • Carolyn 3s · 2024-01-27T15:57:50.906Z
                                              Just found this puzzle last night. Very nice!
                                              • DrTom 4s · 2024-01-27T17:38:22.636Z
                                                I do NOT know why it took me so long to see this. The odd clues on the periphery (didn't see them all until I saw the first one or two that were odd "POWER" "PEACE" "BANK" - they seemed "unfinished"). A kind muggle told me to add things up, but I was killed adding 29+366, and the 99 reference in the Sept answer made me want to add that too. I also will admit to spending lots of time with 2/2000 and 9/99. Finally when I got the WORLD going "around" I knew I had to find a way to make things add up to 80 days (and I should have known because I said "7 days, 14 days" for other clues). Anyway, another fun Mikey that is oh so easy when you see it, but oh so hard when you don't - although they always vex me I do love the Mikey Twists.
                                                • Qmark 3s · 2024-01-27T17:59:23.825Z
                                                  got it at the last minute...needed to be nudged
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                                                  Far-reaching
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                                                  Orizzontali
                                                  1. 1A
                                                    Far-reaching
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                                                    Noted lending institution
                                                  3. 9A
                                                    Diverse melodies
                                                  4. 14A
                                                    German city from which we get the name for an artist's stand
                                                  5. 15A
                                                    XLIII less than C
                                                  6. 16A
                                                    Cable channel with college sports (bracket time soon!!)
                                                  7. 17A
                                                    Common rhyme scheme for a quatrain
                                                  8. 18A
                                                    ___ Vista (search engine bought in 2013 by Yahoo!)
                                                  9. 19A
                                                    Prepare to drive?
                                                  10. 20A
                                                    Kosovo-born guest judge on "The Masked Singer" (2023) whose full name is in the puzzle for once!
                                                  11. 22A
                                                    Folk wisdom (and if it's about the history of milk, that's legend dairy!)
                                                  12. 23A
                                                    QB's gains
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                                                    Charles Schulz's last original "Peanuts" comic strip ran in this mo. and year, which lasted a certain amount of time
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                                                    Only one of Snow White's dwarves that fits the entry
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                                                    Mays and Mantle, for short
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                                                    I thought I was going to buy your painting, but then I had a change of ___
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                                                    Skirt introduced in 1967
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                                                    ___night (compound word that refers to a certain amount of time)
                                                  19. 35A
                                                    Amo, amas, ___ (the only Latin conjugation I know)
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                                                    Bickering
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                                                    Empty
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                                                    The switchboard operator's schedule was just ___
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                                                    Clinches, perhaps in a frosting competition? (This pun doesn't take the cake, but I'll get batter at it)
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                                                    Movie, in Marseilles
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                                                    Earth, Wind, and Fire song (quite a bop!) whose title mo. refers to a certain amount of time
                                                  26. 45A
                                                    Louisiane, par exemple
                                                  27. 46A
                                                    "A Man Called ___" (2012 Fredrik Backman novel)
                                                  28. 47A
                                                    Mart start
                                                  29. 48A
                                                    Prevailed
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                                                    Aficionados of 21-by-21 crosswords in "The New York Times" have to wait this duration between them, a certain amount of time
                                                  31. 51A
                                                    "I clean floors better than anyone!" "Yeah, you ___ up the competition!"
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                                                    "You got that right!"
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                                                    V8 alternative
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                                                    He hit 61 in '61 (and was the answer to my 61st meta!)
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                                                    "___ Change" (1979 Little River Band hit)
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                                                    Sticky location?
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                                                    Creme de la creme
                                                  38. 64A
                                                    "Yeah, that's not going to happen"
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                                                    "Fresh ___" (Mannheim Steamroller debut album)
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                                                    Global ideal
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                                                    Source of information
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                                                    Some bands might go on one
                                                  Verticali
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                                                    Exhausted, in a way
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                                                    "Let me repeat..."
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                                                    Fictional play about a peddler who owes a lot of money: "___ of a Salesman"
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                                                    Exile isle
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                                                    Cranks up the volume
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                                                    HS multimedia location
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                                                    Quibble
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                                                    If you can't find this carmaker's dealership, you might have to do some Soul-searching
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                                                    "Ditto!"
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                                                    ___-friendly
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                                                    "Hurry!"
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                                                    Shiba ___ (Japanese dog breed)
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                                                    Soccer trophy
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                                                    Leaving for
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                                                    Who purchases Powerball tickets? A ___ people!
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                                                    "Breathe (___)" (Anna Nalick song with a parenthetical time - but not a meta-related one!)
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                                                    Give out your address
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                                                    Shelley, e.g.
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                                                    Many a capital
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                                                    "Those elite pizzamakers are so upper ___!"
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                                                    Selena Gomez's character in "Only Murders in the Building"
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                                                    Ipso ___ ("by that very act")
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                                                    Site of big schools?
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                                                    "___ said many times before..."
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                                                    Certain perception
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                                                    Sch. for the Huskies
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                                                    Tennis star who lit the Olympic cauldron in July 2021
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                                                    Novel
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                                                    "If you say so..."
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                                                    West of Spain?
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                                                    Budget prefix
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                                                    Green : Luigi :: red : ___
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                                                    Japanese seaport (using five letters in "AUTHOR")
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                                                    Major player
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                                                    Odds and ends: Abbr.
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                                                    Future 27-Across's exam
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                                                    Almanac feature
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                                                    Ginger ___ (not CAT...but it should be!)
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                                                    Banks in the '50s and '60s, notably
                                                  40. 61D
                                                    "So that's your game!"
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