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◆◆ · Di Mikey G · Pubblicato 2023-09-30T17:00:33.552Z

Meta Prompt
[Level 1] The answer to the meta is a famous individual who once opened a restaurant.
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Commenti

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  • Philip Chow 🤓12:21 · 2023-09-30T17:29:35.763Z
    IMMADEOFFRITTER was my favorite themer :)
    • Mikey G costruttore · 2023-09-30T19:30:44.362Z
      I think that was the last one made because I was like, "That is so ridiculously contrived - what do we have now, a talking donut??" I think Jimmy Buffett could get behind a talking donut!
    • Mikey G costruttore · 2023-09-30T17:39:53.236Z
      Answer: JIMMY BUFFETT
      Explanation: The four restaurant-themed entries all contain the triple pairs of double letters MM, FF, and TT. This, coupled with the anchor (and middle) entries of MARG + HUH + RITA, point to the one and only JIMMY BUFFETT (and if you can find someone else with those triple double letters who opened a restaurant, let me know!). Also threw a little breadcrumb with GYMS having "buff" in the clue.
      I wasn't planning to go the restaurant angle, but a couple of the entries took that form, so I just decided to run with it. While I never frequented Margaritaville, I did eat at the late Buffett's Cheeseburger in Paradise once, for what it's worth, and have enjoyed some of his music over the years - I've been jamming to his tunes the past month or so in his memory.
      • boharr 4s · 2023-09-30T20:22:47.780Z
        Thanks, Mikey. And condolences if the Cubs don't make it.
        • Mikey G costruttore · 2023-10-07T18:08:16.317Z
          Much appreciated, haha.
        • Carolyn 3s · 2023-09-30T21:14:31.274Z
          Took me longer than it should have. I went to his concert a few years back and had the time of my life! Thanks, the clues were great.
          • Mikey G costruttore · 2023-10-07T18:08:21.983Z
            I heard they were electric!
          • JHSeeman 3s · 2023-09-30T22:08:27.044Z
            The man took a somewhat cheesy song and turned it into a billion dollar enterprise.... tough grid fun puzzle
            • Mikey G costruttore · 2023-10-01T01:40:49.052Z
              In some ways, you could argue Jimmy Buffett had a bit of the Warren Buffett in him!
            • Darth 15:46 · 2023-09-30T22:05:10.721Z
              Margaritaville! I wasn't familiar with the restaurant, but I know the song! ;)
              • Mikey G costruttore · 2023-10-01T01:39:58.172Z
                While my favorite beer is root, haha, I might have to go there one time in his honor!
              • whimsy 30:59 · 2023-09-30T23:36:28.941Z
                I suppose I shouldn't have needed to do any googling, but I did -- had to jog my mind. Thanks for a tricky grid puzzle, Mikey!
                • Mikey G costruttore · 2023-10-01T01:41:44.642Z
                  I think this is google-able. I hope it is! There's probably an engine out there to get you * MM * FF * TT *, and I'm all for those helpers!
                  • whimsy 30:59 · 2023-10-01T14:13:11.658Z
                    I was clueless so I was shameless -- googled Famous Person Who Opened Restaurant and got: https://www.eatthis.com/celebrity-restaurants/ Scanned the list until #16 jumped out at me. :-)
                    • Mikey G costruttore · 2023-10-01T19:09:53.510Z
                      I like it! Makes me happy you were able to find confirmation!
                    • DrTom 5s · 2023-10-06T05:04:17.599Z
                      Onelook dictionary will pop up JIMMY BUFFETT if you put that in, of course if you are looking for an ex boxer it will pop that up too. You'd also get Emma Moffatt, and that one Ben WOULD recognize!!
                  • markhr 🤓29:38 · 2023-10-01T00:17:53.233Z
                    Odd, I've had a Jimmy Buffett earworm today but it didn't seem to help me solve this any quicker. I was focusing on Food Network types. Finally caught on. Back to "Banana Republics"...
                    • Mikey G costruttore · 2023-10-01T01:43:03.991Z
                      "Volcano" always gets stuck in mine, haha.
                    • Hector 🤓12:10 · 2023-10-01T01:38:43.003Z
                      Nibblin' on sponge cake here... I'm miffed and catty.
                      • Abide 2s · 2023-10-02T02:45:14.989Z
                        Your comment seems off-putting.
                        • Mikey G costruttore · 2023-10-07T18:08:38.581Z
                          Bahaha, I see what you all are doing.
                      • Laura M 🤓18:10 · 2023-10-01T02:23:32.070Z
                        Nice! I was totally stuck until I finally noticed the first and last across entries.
                        • whimsy 30:59 · 2023-10-01T14:14:13.874Z
                          Wow! Duh - totally missed that! :-)
                        • SamKat9 🤓11:40 · 2023-10-01T02:34:58.162Z
                          There were so many funny clues in this puzzle, thank you! And a nice nod to Jimmy Buffett :)
                          • Mikey G costruttore · 2023-10-07T18:08:44.671Z
                            Of course!
                          • ReB 4s · 2023-10-01T23:51:15.702Z
                            Finally found the correct google search term: "MMFFTT" and the rest fell into place. Nice breather in a challenging meta week. Great themers too. Thanks.
                            Didn't know until now that Margaritaville is an actual restaurant chain, as opposed to just being a song.
                            • Mikey G costruttore · 2023-10-07T18:09:01.998Z
                              Wild! He really gave a lot of people a lot of joy.
                            • benchen71 12s · 2023-10-02T00:54:37.841Z
                              Never heard of him. I only got this one with a couple of nudges.
                              • Mikey G costruttore · 2023-10-07T18:09:31.244Z
                                Sorry, Ben! Your homework is to listen to "Songs You Know By Heart" (maybe skip a couple, as I do, haha) and let me know what you think!
                              • I K Snamhcok 2s · 2023-10-02T01:47:49.615Z
                                If I understand correctly, at Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville, you’re guaranteed to hear “Margaritaville” at least once every hour.
                                • Mikey G costruttore · 2023-10-07T18:10:06.631Z
                                  I would not be surprised, haha.
                                • rjy 7s · 2023-10-03T14:10:43.278Z
                                  Fun respite Mikey! One of those serendipitous times when I immediately had the answer just from seeing the prompt alone - everyone gets that once in their meta-solving lives, right? so I used mine up. But a fun grid to confirm, with clever easter eggs to boot... thanks, Mikey!
                                  • Mikey G costruttore · 2023-10-07T18:13:02.286Z
                                    Of course! I'm totally fine when that happens! It was equally serendipitous when the MMFFTT entries started revolving around food, and Buffett's restaurants helped make that connection!
                                  • Bird Lives 8s · 2023-10-04T14:20:29.636Z
                                    1. Why don't we get drunk and solve this meta?
                                    2. I wonder how many people get the reference in the title of his early album "A White Port Coat and a Pink Crustacean."
                                    3. Will Pf had a similar puzzle a while back based on Russell Westbrook, though at the time Westbrook had not just died.
                                    • DrTom 5s · 2023-10-06T04:57:28.687Z
                                      I'm all dressed up in a trance.....so I get it, but it was "A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean", so a little more like the Marty Robbins song.
                                      • Bird Lives 8s · 2023-10-06T23:29:34.757Z
                                        "Port" was a typo. I figured that you would know it, But these young whippersnappers in their 60s . . .
                                        • Mikey G costruttore · 2023-10-07T18:14:10.411Z
                                          As soon as I heard the album title for the first time (high school? college?), I knew that was a pun on something - I know Marty Robbins through one of my favorite lyricists Bernie Taupin, who said "Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs" is his favorite album of all time.
                                    • Joe 🤓16:28 · 2023-10-05T19:27:18.249Z
                                      I know the dude. I know the song. I had no idea it was a restaurant. I need to get out more. Thanks, Mikey! It took me 3 hints. Yeesh!
                                      • DrTom 5s · 2023-10-06T04:44:17.892Z
                                        I really do appreciate the fact you're puzzlin here
                                        The voice is so familiar
                                        But the clues are not that clear
                                        So puzzler bring the grid on, let's hope that I evolve
                                        Maybe I need to get drunk and solve
                                        One of my favorites, and I mourn his passing. I had a bit of a time trying to answer all of the clues, but I see why. Love the cheeseburger (triple double) reference. It was MUFFULETTA that tipped me, it sounded so much like BUFFETT and I started thinking Buffet Restaurant and the rest is just wastin away. Thanks for the puzzle Mike, sorry it took me so long to get around to it.
                                        • Bird Lives 8s · 2023-10-06T23:35:10.854Z
                                          At a chairs’ meeting some years back, the dean was telling us that we shouldn’t just automatically approve applications for promotion. “I’m not saying to deny them, but give them some scrutiny. You should scrutinize them according to the criteria,” etc. Words to that effect, but he used the word “scrutiny” a few more times. So I said, not quite sotto voce, “Why don’t we get drunk and srutinize these applications,” with an appropriate caesura in the middle of the word. None of the fourteen people at the table laughed. You gotta know your audience.
                                          • DrTom 5s · 2023-10-08T03:08:33.870Z
                                            Oh Lord, been there done that! Some people treat humor like a boil; they don't want to talk about it, they cannot wait until it is over and they hope it never happens again. Needless to say that during a teaching and clinical career I ran across more than my fair share of "bad audiences" for perfectly delightful double entendres and bad puns.
                                          • Mikey G costruttore · 2023-10-07T18:15:29.592Z
                                            Yeah, it felt really surreal when I woke up to that news. He seemed so timeless but also of this era. Still weird typing this knowing he's no longer with us. Yeah, and the "triple double" cheeseburger reference helps put the icing on the cake (more healthy grub).
                                          • Qmark 3s · 2023-10-07T14:39:16.018Z
                                            This took me way longer than it should have...but happy that it came to me before the deadline. Thanks Mikey!
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                                            She played Catherine in "CSI"
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                                            Orizzontali
                                            1. 1A
                                              She played Catherine in "CSI"
                                            2. 5A
                                              1989 hit by the B-52s (great road trip bop)
                                            3. 9A
                                              Bugaboo
                                            4. 13A
                                              First two words in a Cash tune
                                            5. 14A
                                              Missionary Junipero who becomes a mattress brand when the second "R" becomes a "T"
                                            6. 15A
                                              Mavens
                                            7. 16A
                                              "This dish made from leavened batter and slathered with completely healthy fixings is quite scrumptious, Mr. Damon!"
                                            8. 19A
                                              "___ heard..."
                                            9. 20A
                                              "I'm so knowledgeable about deer." "Indeed! I ___ all over you!"
                                            10. 21A
                                              "Go team! Solve those impossible metas!"
                                            11. 22A
                                              "Homegoing" and "Transcendent Kingdom" author Gyasi
                                            12. 25A
                                              It merged with the WB in 2006 to form the CW
                                            13. 27A
                                              Exude
                                            14. 29A
                                              "Look at me! Yours truly possesses battered or breaded dough, which can be either sweet or savory! So donut mind me!"
                                            15. 32A
                                              Bucolic
                                            16. 33A
                                              They're out of this world!: Abbr.
                                            17. 34A
                                              "I had a gin at the meeting" "Must be a ___ day at work"
                                            18. 35A
                                              "Say what?"
                                            19. 37A
                                              First name of poet who wrote the lyrics to the song referenced in 13-Across
                                            20. 41A
                                              Walkman batteries
                                            21. 44A
                                              "Really? I had no idea"
                                            22. 47A
                                              "Hot sandwiches! Get your piping hot sandwiches of Sicilian origins with ham, Swiss cheese, and salad made from 45-Down right here!"
                                            23. 51A
                                              Expungement
                                            24. 52A
                                              Fix
                                            25. 53A
                                              MTV hosts
                                            26. 54A
                                              GIF or .bmp
                                            27. 55A
                                              Circular opening?
                                            28. 57A
                                              Dancer Chmerkovskiy of "Dancing with the Stars"
                                            29. 59A
                                              "I NEED THAT BEVERAGE OF ESPRESSO AND STEAMED MILK RIGHT NOW I PROMISE I HAVEN'T HAD TOO MANY ALREADY"
                                            30. 65A
                                              Unit of lettuce that I'm romaine all over town to find
                                            31. 66A
                                              Soothing succulents
                                            32. 67A
                                              "Stop blaring your Sousa marches! Let me arise!" (My grandfather did this)
                                            33. 68A
                                              1040 IDs
                                            34. 69A
                                              "If you're thinking about buying that algebra textbook for fun, I'd like to have a ___ with you"
                                            35. 70A
                                              Maria : Natalie :: Anita : ___ (actresses and roles from a 1960s Best Picture winner)
                                            Verticali
                                            1. 1D
                                              5, in some contexts
                                            2. 2D
                                              First word of United Arab Emirates capital
                                            3. 3D
                                              Cheesy film about two people who fall in love while using outdated technology: CD-___-com
                                            4. 4D
                                              Where exercise buffs go (to get buff)
                                            5. 5D
                                              Stephen of "The Crying Game" whose last name is Rea (whoops)
                                            6. 6D
                                              "Carmina Burana" composer who I learned about through a recent Gaffney meta (see, crosswords are educational!)
                                            7. 7D
                                              [I'm a dog! Can't you see? Look at how much of a dog I am!]
                                            8. 8D
                                              Worms, maybe
                                            9. 9D
                                              Tempo stat
                                            10. 10D
                                              Turkish peak
                                            11. 11D
                                              Change a score?
                                            12. 12D
                                              Purim heroine
                                            13. 14D
                                              Dora the Explorer's thieving vulpine antagonist
                                            14. 17D
                                              "Seriously??"
                                            15. 18D
                                              Go splitsville (I was dating a bowler, but we had to split...wait, that was my last meta)
                                            16. 22D
                                              Pups' peeps
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                                              Human rights attorney Clooney
                                            18. 24D
                                              Schoolyard riposte
                                            19. 26D
                                              Need an ark built? I ___ guy!
                                            20. 28D
                                              "Okay, we're good to go!"
                                            21. 30D
                                              Starters, likely
                                            22. 31D
                                              The article on marshmallowy desserts isn't hard-hitting news; it's just a lot of ___
                                            23. 36D
                                              1 to 2, e.g.
                                            24. 38D
                                              LG product
                                            25. 39D
                                              Key of "Walk of Life" (another bop): Abbr.
                                            26. 40D
                                              More, sometimes
                                            27. 42D
                                              Divert
                                            28. 43D
                                              "No problem for me!"
                                            29. 45D
                                              See 47-Across
                                            30. 46D
                                              De jure
                                            31. 47D
                                              Considers
                                            32. 48D
                                              Sides in Stratego
                                            33. 49D
                                              Vendor of old clothing, colloquially
                                            34. 50D
                                              Like mother, like daughter
                                            35. 56D
                                              "___ one, is a halogen" (chemistry humor, sort of)
                                            36. 58D
                                              Where the cubs play
                                            37. 60D
                                              Rx writers with perfectly legible handwriting (I'm one to talk)
                                            38. 61D
                                              Put coins into the meter (my friend does this - you should meter sometime)
                                            39. 62D
                                              "More than I needed to know!"
                                            40. 63D
                                              Scolding syllable
                                            41. 64D
                                              AQI monitor
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