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Nominative Geography (Meta)

· Di benchen71 · Pubblicato 2024-01-16T05:00:45.691Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a book by 69 across
I had this meta idea in my notes for a while now, so I don't recall what the seed was. It was a stretch to get all of the required pieces into the grid, but then I went and made it into a pangram! I hope I haven't made the grid too difficult as a result; I've tried to provide some additional help where it might be needed the most. The meta should not be too difficult, though. The answer to the meta is a book by 69 across. Answer & explanation: https://xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=154440#p154440
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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  • woozy 🤓13:03 · 2024-01-16T05:51:17.873Z
    Ha! Fun.... but the Madonna clue? Isn't this the umpteenth time we've all made that same mispelling?
    • benchen71 costruttore · 2024-01-16T06:38:52.801Z
      Clue edited. Thanks for picking that up!
    • SamKat9 16:03 · 2024-01-16T06:13:10.256Z
      Very cool puzzle and construction. I love this book!
      • Pair O Ducks 🤓6:56 · 2024-01-16T13:49:37.641Z
        Fun puzzle, and not too hard once I let go of my presuppositions about what "Nominative" meant. Love this book!
        • JHSeeman 2s · 2024-01-16T14:16:33.370Z
          Lots of fun. to a minute, but then jumped off the page. Thanks for the fun puzzle and meta
          • Darth 16:35 · 2024-01-16T14:12:14.857Z
            Thanks, Ben. ;)
            • lbray53 2s · 2024-01-16T14:22:26.719Z
              So... be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray
              A favorite book in our family. Both of our boys are living this book!
              • Adam Doctoroff 🤓4:22 · 2024-01-16T14:46:16.607Z
                Thanks Ben!
                • MatthewL 🤓8:10 · 2024-01-16T15:14:18.125Z
                  Wonderful! Great cluing and a great metanism. Thanks for the puzzle, Ben!
                  • KayW 🤓10:03 · 2024-01-16T15:55:25.821Z
                    Excellent! Of course I tried the first letters of entries/clues first, but a very clever use of "nominative geography". Fun to solve, thanks!
                    • whimsy 16:21 · 2024-01-16T16:45:14.007Z
                      And to think that I saw it when I was considering Mulberry Street... Worth the grid for the meta -- Thanks, Ben!
                      • HeadinHome 🤓3:28 · 2024-01-16T17:05:47.453Z
                        Creative meta idea! The one that tipped it for me was PLASTER — even when doing the first part of the grid, I though “hmm… that would be even more apt if he’d used “plaster of Paris”! Curious as to why you didn’t just use “place” as the meta answer… am I missing some more Seussical content? Thanks for the fun!
                        • benchen71 costruttore · 2024-01-16T21:04:42.408Z
                          The BARBER of Seville!
                        • Ergcat 16:34 · 2024-01-16T17:27:49.965Z
                          Fun solve! I loved this one! Thanks, Ben!
                          • imontoo 2s · 2024-01-16T17:42:00.320Z
                            A favorite which we read often to our child. ❤️
                            • Hector 🤓7:45 · 2024-01-16T17:30:49.258Z
                              Very impressive. It's hard even to think of many other "* of [city]" phrases that a solver could be expected to find familiar.
                              • DrTom 3s · 2024-01-16T21:51:28.643Z
                                I was trying to think of a few myself: Treaty of Ghent, Edict of Nantes, Colossus of Rhodes, Isle of Capri, Lady of Lourdes...bt there are not that many that people would recognize immediately. Ben would have had to been thinking on this for a while to get the right set up for letter combination. The vowels are probably the hardest.
                              • BarbaraK 2s · 2024-01-16T18:41:12.375Z
                                Very nice!
                                But I’m surprised by the map you chose for the map for the cover pic. Would have thought something with this orientation would be more your speed
                                🙂
                                • hoover 2s · 2024-01-16T20:22:34.708Z
                                  Fell down a shallow rabbit hole with "Egyptian flower" -> NILE and "scottish hat" -> TAM, but I dug my way out. Nice one!
                                  • benchen71 costruttore · 2024-01-16T21:06:33.511Z
                                    I am not a fan of "flower" for river clues!
                                  • Dave C 30s · 2024-01-16T22:27:04.508Z
                                    Fun. My wife guessed this would be the answer before we started filling in the grid.
                                    • ajk 16:36 · 2024-01-17T00:11:47.723Z
                                      Fun one, thanks. Solved pretty quickly, so not sure what my way in was. But I think it was purple rose of CAIRO.
                                      • Laura M 🤓11:27 · 2024-01-17T00:22:49.139Z
                                        Fun! I did find the mechanism, but this would have been my guess anyway :-)
                                        • Carolyn 3s · 2024-01-18T00:55:02.760Z
                                          Very cute! Enjoyed it.
                                          • Qmark 5s · 2024-01-18T13:07:20.683Z
                                            fun idea, Ben...thanks !
                                            • ReB 4s · 2024-01-21T18:44:58.007Z
                                              Nice puzzle, couldn't get to it until today, and needed some nudging to rev up the mental engines.
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                                              Take possession of
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                                              Orizzontali
                                              1. 1A
                                                Take possession of
                                              2. 8A
                                                Submit, as a contest entry
                                              3. 14A
                                                Continued for a loooooong time, like news coverage when there really isn't anything new to say
                                              4. 15A
                                                Bon Jovi song, "You Give Love A ___"
                                              5. 16A
                                                Building material probably used in a lot of French architecture
                                              6. 17A
                                                "Fast & Furious" franchise protagonist, Brian ___ (played by Paul Walker)
                                              7. 18A
                                                Medical breakthrough
                                              8. 19A
                                                Make a formal statement at a wedding
                                              9. 21A
                                                Posed a question
                                              10. 23A
                                                Castle pinnacle, a good perch for ravens that, according to superstition, protect the English Crown
                                              11. 24A
                                                Lowest point
                                              12. 27A
                                                Takes care of
                                              13. 31A
                                                Ford in the 2005 movie adaptation of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
                                              14. 34A
                                                Director, Cecil B. De___
                                              15. 36A
                                                Come down like ___ of bricks
                                              16. 37A
                                                Passes, as time
                                              17. 39A
                                                Where to borrow a book or scroll if you lived in Egypt in antiquity
                                              18. 42A
                                                "Star Trek" navigator
                                              19. 43A
                                                Protein-building acid
                                              20. 45A
                                                Spar in a ring
                                              21. 46A
                                                Inside info, that just might pay off down the track
                                              22. 49A
                                                The Jetsons' dog
                                              23. 51A
                                                It's blocked by a cream with an SPF
                                              24. 53A
                                                Nightmare location of film, for short
                                              25. 57A
                                                Egyptian flower left outside in a Prince movie?
                                              26. 62A
                                                Duchess's husband who presents awards at the drop of a Scottish hat
                                              27. 63A
                                                Immediately, or at the very least very quickly
                                              28. 64A
                                                1987 Pet Shop Boys hit
                                              29. 66A
                                                Combinations of two areas (the answer includes a letter that made this puzzle into a pangram, which has absolutely nothing to do with the meta!)
                                              30. 67A
                                                Made like a horse, vocally
                                              31. 68A
                                                Figaro, in a Rossini opera set in Spain
                                              32. 69A
                                                Author of "Fox in Sox" and other classic children's books
                                              Verticali
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                                                Pet protection org.
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                                                Not quite a B but still slightly better than average
                                              3. 3D
                                                Subatomic particle (or a Ferengi in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"; actually, now that I think about it the sort of solvers who would know the latter clue would probably also know the first clue!)
                                              4. 4D
                                                Invisible
                                              5. 5D
                                                Acronym for all network-connected appliances everywhere
                                              6. 6D
                                                Wished undone
                                              7. 7D
                                                Infinitive form of the verb that conjugates "je suis, tu es, il/elle est ..."
                                              8. 8D
                                                Long-tailed, colourful parrots
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                                                Object of one's affection, perhaps?
                                              10. 10D
                                                Where you can find the cochlea
                                              11. 11D
                                                "Lift Every Voice" author, ___ Guinier (an anagram of NAIL, in case that helps)
                                              12. 12D
                                                Chatted online
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                                                Romulan played by Eric Bana in the 2009 reboot "Star Trek"
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                                                Necktie made of string
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                                                Key combination that every Windows user knows all too well: ___-ALT-DEL
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                                                River blockages
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                                                Kick the bucket
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                                                Casablanca's Lund
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                                                Shot in the dark
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                                                Matador's opponent
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                                                Black gemstone
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                                                Fit together, like a well-functioning team
                                              23. 32D
                                                Writer Ijeoma ___ (hidden backwards in COULOMB)
                                              24. 33D
                                                Chemical compound consisting of an ionic assembly of positively charged cations and negatively charged anions
                                              25. 35D
                                                Yalies
                                              26. 38D
                                                Prearranged conspiracy
                                              27. 40D
                                                Bank account earnings, for short
                                              28. 41D
                                                "Don't ___ us, get to the chorus" (Berry Gordy, Jr. quote)
                                              29. 44D
                                                Ham go-with in a bread scroll
                                              30. 47D
                                                Hospital tube used to administer fluids, for short
                                              31. 48D
                                                Have a bias toward
                                              32. 50D
                                                Something not wasted on the young (but their time will come!)
                                              33. 52D
                                                Pound sounds / canine comments / lab reports, etc...
                                              34. 54D
                                                Dragon voiced by Eddie Murphy in "Mulan"
                                              35. 55D
                                                "Gray ___ are gonna clear up..."
                                              36. 56D
                                                Takes care of
                                              37. 57D
                                                Mr. ___ (Coca-Cola's response to Dr. Pepper)
                                              38. 58D
                                                Suffix that joins to pet- to form a flowering plant
                                              39. 59D
                                                Motorola flip phone from 2005
                                              40. 60D
                                                Trig. function that doesn't use radians or gradians
                                              41. 61D
                                                Anagram of 7 down that is one letter short of a poetic word for "everlasting"
                                              42. 65D
                                                Bro's sib
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