Man Overboard!

Thank you for solving "Man Overboard"! Did you also find all of the Easter eggs?

Nice one! Not familiar with "tote board," but I could see where it was going :-)

And no, I didn't notice the Easter eggs! I see four of them now (after Googling), not sure if that's all. Thanks for the puzzle!

Not sure what a tote board is but a good and strong puzzle.

I got this one from NICK NAME and BLUE EYES, in conjunction with SAMMY and DEAN the other members of the Brat Pack with FRANK. Only after reading the comments do I see the grid entries that can precede BOARD.

Fun even the second time around.

Saw NICK NAME and SAMMY, DEAN and JOEY. Didn’t realize they were the eggs, not the metanism. Time to backsolve to see what I missed!

Nice! Thanks, Cap'n!

You sure packed a lot of stuff in there! Got the themes, the Rat Pack, the other nickname and the record label, but I’m stumped on the song. Nice puzzle, Capn!

PETER Lawford also in there, right? Thought there was some diversion towards Clint Eastwood, with at least KEEPOFF, IWO, CHAIR, OLD, PEEVISH and GRAN. True, Cap'n? Great clue for rival of Popeye - thought for long time how to make BLUTO fit in three spaces!

Clever construction! Thanks for a fun one!

Delightful! Cap’n Rick, if you could have also somehow worked in the Frat Pack, I’d be IN AWE!! As it is I’ve found five or maybe six Easter Eggs so far. I’ll look again later. Thanks!

Usual awsomeness! I work on a charity event with lots of young 'ens and they never know what I'm talking about when I ask for a timpani roll to update the tote board! So much cleverness but KFC as Popeye's rival led the way for me.

I found Joey (Bishop), Sammy (Davis, Jr.), Peter (Lawford), Dean (Martin), Nick, Name, Old, Blue, Eyes. Are those the eight Easter eggs, and there's also a metanism? Wait, that's nine. Erika, Anne, Arlo, Isa, and Luc (and Pat) were throwing me off.

I didn't bother with Easter Eggs (or rats). I did it my way. (OTOH, I did like CHAIR crossed with MAN OF.)

I might have just found the Easter eggs! I did this one my way.

^^^ Sorry for the double post! (Wanted top make you were properly thanked!)

Usual awesomeness! Thank you for sharing. I work on a charity event with lots of youngsters and they always look at me crookedly when I call for a timpani roll to update the tote board! So much cleverness but KFC as Popeye's rival led the way for me.

Actually solved this off the easter eggs. Still not entirely sure what the mechanism is. In any event, nice puzzle!

Thanks for the puzzle, Cap'n Rick! Well done, as always!

Got it with the Easter Eggs! Nice one to start the week! Thanks, Cap’n!

fun stuff, thanks. spotted NICK NAME OLD BLUE EYES without noticing the elegance of them all being over words that proceed BOARD.

Well you had me running down bunny trails Cap. I saw CHAIRMAN, FOREMAN, OLDMAN and was ready to enter CFO but that is an important person, not a famous one. I then was scrambling for "MANs": ANTMAN, BLUEMAN, PETERMAN (from Seinfeld), C'MON MAN, SEEYA MAN..but obviously nowhere. Then I went to the Muggle site and looked at your entry. NCK NAME had stood out early but then I dropped to the bottom and saw BLUE EYES and remembered OLD in the middle. I added SAMMY, JOEY and DEAN. That is when CHAIRMAN Really became important because we all know he was Chairman of the Board. I saw RCA (one of the labels he was on) and wondered if you had tried Reprise (the label he started) but didn't see that. This will play easier for us in the "older generation". I liked the puzzle and I will definitely keep spreading the news. (Oh, and just now realized that you ended with a Sinatra song)

Fun one, Cap’n. Thanks!

Great puzzle. I was floundering for a bit and then my husband reminded me to look at the title again. Once I did that, it all came together nicely. I even found the Easter Eggs, which I hardly ever do!

needed the eggs

We went overboard and thought of blue board and name board. We did see all the Easter eggs including the nickname Old Blue eyes. Glad we finally just submitted Sinatra. A fun one as always Cap'n! Thanks so much!

Saw FOREman, Chairman, Old Man sat in that rabbit hole for a bit, then the nagging Chair 15A Man of 7D then I saw the easter eggs, Joey, Sammy Dean, thought the original Ocean's Eleven crew, and saw Outboard, Toteboard, Dashboard, Old Blue Eyes and realized both the meta and part of the easter eggs. Really fun one, thanks

This one went waaaay over my head. Thanks for the shove, Capn Rick, and the puzzle.

I didn't see what was hiding in plain sight! Great construction.

Solved this one over breakfast after being stumped yesterday. Like Dr. Tom, I was putting "man" after everything in sight -- and I was SURE I was on the right track when I found our president's phrase "C'mon, man!" Thanks, Rick!

Thanks, Cap’n Rick!

I was late getting to this puzzle, but didn't need any hints to solve it...thanks Rick!

My mom would have loved this puzzle. I did, too!