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First-Name Basis

· Di Wendy Walker · Pubblicato 2024-01-22T12:43:01.931Z

Meta Prompt
The meta answer is an actor.
Hello, friends! Here is my first puzzle of 2024. Thanks to Abide for being such an awesome mentor, Cap'n Rick for his kind encouragement, and Joe Ross for his technical support. Nudges: Based on the title, what do you think should you be looking for in the grid?
There are eight of them, symmetrically placed.
Read the unnecessarily wordy clues for those eight, and keep in mind the prompt -- you're looking for an actor.
How could that verbosity help you to derive a surname for each?
Video spoiler: I really wanted to post a photo of my MALE CAT playing with various untidy SKEINS OF YARN in my knitting basket.
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  • Pair O Ducks 🤓5:15 · 2024-01-22T13:26:00.961Z
    Thanks, Wendy! I'm horrible at film trivia and still had a great time solving (I think that's the mark of some mighty fine puzzle constructing!)
    • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-22T14:03:10.724Z
      Thank you so much! That is so nice of you! Sorry about the not-as-well-known soap-opera guy -- but I could not find anyone else with a six-letter first name that could be clued as a not-name and a last name that started with an A!
    • DIS 🤓7:24 · 2024-01-22T13:40:41.365Z
      I didn't know all of them, but enough to be sure of the answer. Great puzzle!
      • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-22T14:04:07.675Z
        Thanks! What I love about the answer is that both his first and last names could also be clued as not-names.
      • boharr 2s · 2024-01-22T14:11:03.800Z
        Fun puzzle. Thanks, Wendy.
        • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-22T15:12:10.196Z
          You are very welcome, Bob!
        • KayW 🤓6:05 · 2024-01-22T14:00:18.359Z
          Much fun!! I confess first had TERRY GILLIAM but once I saw where the others were headed, I back-solved.
          • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-22T15:12:40.563Z
            That was a challenge for sure, directing solvers to the correct surname!
          • Meg 3s · 2024-01-22T14:32:30.566Z
            Thanks Wendy! Nice start to the week.
            • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-22T15:12:55.259Z
              Glad you enjoyed it, Meg!
            • Hector 3s · 2024-01-22T14:59:55.771Z
              Thanks for the enjoyable solve experience of twists and turns ... sort of, well, wendy, you might say
              • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-22T16:24:03.245Z
                Haha! You are very welcome!
              • Mateo Cruzas 🤓4:44 · 2024-01-22T15:15:37.204Z
                Good puzzle.
                Im absolutely horrible and dont understand how to solve a Meta. even with the answer to this one, I cannot figure out how to get to the answer? any help?
                • Byron 🤓8:34 · 2024-01-25T20:38:32.082Z
                  There are 8 first names in the across entries, each with an unusual word in the clue. For example, DUSTIN and "hook", which clues Hoffman.
                • LarsCaine 🤓11:23 · 2024-01-22T15:40:17.133Z
                  A city in Minnesota named for politician and farmer Robert (I don't think he was a blue blood)
                  • MatthewL 🤓5:54 · 2024-01-22T15:32:01.595Z
                    Fun one, Wendy! Had to back solve for a few, but ultimately got there. TERRY THOMAS was the toughest, but thankfully, Mr. G was up to the task. Thanks for the puzzle.
                    • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-22T16:25:42.892Z
                      Yeah, I am sorry about that one, too. My initial attempt for this puzzle was to use composers' names (e.g., WOLFGANG = pack of canines -- how 'bout that!) but I just couldn't find enough of them to create a puzzle.
                    • lbray53 3s · 2024-01-22T15:35:17.686Z
                      Nicely done. I figured out what to do but only knew three of the actors with Mr. Google! Fun nevertheless.
                      • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-22T16:26:09.708Z
                        Thanks so much for the kind words!
                      • Adam Doctoroff 🤓3:36 · 2024-01-22T16:25:05.167Z
                        Clever one, Wendy. Thanks! Definitely had to Google several of those names.
                        • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-22T21:17:19.958Z
                          Thanks for solving! Google was my friend, too.
                        • woozy 🤓13:25 · 2024-01-22T16:27:25.588Z
                          Beautiful. Very well done and fun.
                          • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-22T21:17:32.141Z
                            I so appreciate your compliments!
                          • Bird Lives 7s · 2024-01-22T16:27:19.348Z
                            Great fun. If only there had been a way to make it more of a challenge for the solver, not just the clue writer. When I'd finished and looked back at 1A, SHAM, I wondered if there were a way to make 68A KNOT or TONK to complete the anagram. There isn't. But there is the crypitic "Actor acknowledgements including mantra."
                            • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-22T21:18:06.149Z
                              Whoa! That's impressive! Thanks for solving, Jay.
                            • Ergcat 15:29 · 2024-01-22T16:38:06.253Z
                              very clever! Great fun in figuring out that the film title was in the clues for the "first names" ! Thanks, Wendy, enjoyed this puzzle!
                              • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-22T21:19:08.317Z
                                That part was not originally there, until solver Peter Abide came up with different actors than the ones I intended and I realized I needed some signposts in the clues. So glad you enjoyed it!
                              • Capn Rick 🤓9:47 · 2024-01-22T17:56:39.904Z
                                Great puzzle, Wendy! When I first solved I was thinking Peter "Falk", who always had trouble saying "goodbye" in his Columbo role ("Just one more thing.") and Dustin "Johnson" (the golfer, not the actor), who occasionally hits "hooks" off the tee. 😄
                                • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-22T21:20:41.398Z
                                  Haha! The clue for DUSTIN may be my favorite in the puzzle. And it is largely why I went with the obscure LINDEN, because I needed to match the six letters in DUSTIN. Your grids are perfection so you know ALL ABOUT that!
                                • Qmark 3s · 2024-01-22T18:00:43.755Z
                                  Fun puzzle...thanks Wendy! Here's to many more in '24!
                                  • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-22T21:20:51.061Z
                                    Hoping so! Thanks!
                                  • Darth 11:54 · 2024-01-22T18:48:55.262Z
                                    Thanks, Wendy! Clever concept and construction! Loved it. Yeah, I felt like I should know more but I knew three, which gave me a good inkling... then had to Google the rest. One of my fav actors, up there with Dustin and Jimmy. :)
                                    • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-22T21:21:18.901Z
                                      Wow, high praise indeed! Thanks for solving!
                                    • HeadinHome 🤓1:12 · 2024-01-22T18:31:03.169Z
                                      How fun! Google gave me Terry Flores as the editor of Variety, so I had FOM HANKS for about half a second. ( : Also, fun how GRACE the attribute and GRACE the name really go together?? (I mean, she seemed to define “dignity plus poise”!)
                                      • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-22T21:22:42.845Z
                                        Wendy, thank you so much for your kind words! Glad you enjoyed it. I killed off a few brain cells coming up with a clue that signaled both terrycloth AND mink!
                                      • imontoo 3s · 2024-01-22T20:27:33.177Z
                                        Super clever, Wendy! Really enjoyed it.
                                        • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-23T12:47:43.627Z
                                          Thanks for solving! Glad you enjoyed it!
                                        • Philip Chow 🤓6:07 · 2024-01-22T20:51:37.328Z
                                          the only one i watched was "Hook"... the rest I had to google but got there! fun puzzle thank you!!... For "Weeds" I thought it was the TV show, so i didn't remember any Nicks from it before I googled that it was a movie too! I had Hader first for "Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs"... I had the wrong movie and had to go back in time even more!... 65A should be re-clued... the teletubby is spelled Laa-Laa
                                          • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-23T12:49:10.794Z
                                            Thank you so much for solving, Philip! I saw both Laa-Laa and Lala online for the TT's name, so I went with it ... but clearly should have delved deeper.
                                          • whimsy 🤓9:08 · 2024-01-22T21:13:34.587Z
                                            For some reason, I began working on the meta from the bottom up -- S, K, N?, ??, H -- so there it was! Glanced back to see that I could name the first three actors simply on "well-known"-ability in order to get my TOM. Oh, and I just trusted you completely when it came to that Linden guy, Wendy! 😄 Lots of fun and a great idea!
                                            • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-23T12:49:45.218Z
                                              I really appreciate your kind words, Whimsy -- thanks and I'm glad you liked it!
                                            • ajk 🤓5:20 · 2024-01-22T21:39:28.463Z
                                              Fun idea! Needed Google for all but BILL/DUSTIN/JIMMY, but still pretty gettable. DUSTIN & hook was what finally tipped me to the mechanism. Love the 7D clue.
                                              • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-23T13:04:55.683Z
                                                Once ROADKILL showed up in the grid, I knew exactly how I was going to clue it. The clue I was really happy with was in fact the DUSTIN one. To get the movie name reference I pored over a list of his movies. Graduate? Hmmm ... was "Dust in the Wind" a song I listened to in graduate school? No, because I didn't GO to graduate school. Kramer vs. Kramer? Did Cosmo Kramer ever refer to the song? No. Then when I saw Hook, it all came together magically. You know the feeling!
                                                • ajk 🤓5:20 · 2024-01-23T16:22:02.706Z
                                                  Yes indeed :)
                                              • Anita and Steve 4s · 2024-01-22T21:35:55.727Z
                                                Enjoyed the trip down memory lane. I thought immediately of Rear Window when I saw both Jimmy and Grace in the grid, so was prepared to notice those words in the clues!
                                                • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-23T12:51:05.179Z
                                                  I was hoping that breaking into that "Rear Window" would set off some alarms! Glad it helped!
                                                • Tyrpmom 2s · 2024-01-22T22:50:46.897Z
                                                  Very entertaining. Thanks.
                                                  • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-23T12:51:17.514Z
                                                    You are very welcome!
                                                  • hoover 7s · 2024-01-22T23:31:08.532Z
                                                    I don't even know what you would be Googling. IMDB is my friend.
                                                    • ajk 🤓5:20 · 2024-01-23T00:17:42.786Z
                                                      actor was pretty effective :)
                                                      • ajk 🤓5:20 · 2024-01-23T00:18:41.287Z
                                                        lol oops, apparently Crosshare ignores things in angle brackets. Above should say [ name ] actor [ keyword ]
                                                        • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-23T12:53:23.091Z
                                                          I love IMDB, too. The problem is that I end up reading movie trivia for half-an-hour! ("Oh, my gosh, Rosamund Pike was in THAT?!")
                                                        • Carolyn 3s · 2024-01-23T00:29:20.447Z
                                                          That was fun! At first I saw way too many names, both across and down. Once I narrowed them down by looking at your delightful clues, it all fell into place. Thanks!
                                                          • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-23T12:55:14.771Z
                                                            YES -- I went through a number of grids that were just chockful of names and started fearing that a workable grid would be impossible.
                                                          • Adam Simon Levine 2s · 2024-01-23T03:01:10.466Z
                                                            Great puzzle! And even more amazing that all of these names could be placed symmetrically.
                                                            • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-23T12:57:39.347Z
                                                              Thank you so much for your kind words! I wouldn't be satisfied it the themers weren't symmetrical, nor would our MMM gatekeepers -- thanks for noticing!
                                                            • SamKat9 🤓10:24 · 2024-01-23T07:18:35.849Z
                                                              Thanks for such a clever puzzle!
                                                              • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-23T12:57:52.850Z
                                                                You are welcome! Thanks for solving!
                                                              • DrTom 16:10 · 2024-01-23T04:48:24.024Z
                                                                Well I managed to get it from thinking who the names might be, particularly at the end; GRACE I immediately thought KELLY and JIMMY well STEWART. So if NICK could be NOLTE I thought, that gives me NKS and can the others...yep they can. Later I went back and saw the beauty. Hey, don't knock LINDEN ASHBY, he graduated from the high school (well more of a prep school) right across the street from my church....of course Mortal Kombat would be hard to sneak into a clue. Fun one Wendy.
                                                                • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-23T12:58:20.602Z
                                                                  Dr. Tom, I am so glad you enjoyed it. Thank you!
                                                                • kurtalert 🤓6:19 · 2024-01-23T13:27:05.200Z
                                                                  Very nice, thanks Wendy! I've never heard of a few of these but fortunately OMHNKS points to a pretty obvious answer... and it's not "NOM, HUNKS!"
                                                                  • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-24T22:20:23.022Z
                                                                    I apologize -- for symmetry I had to use some less-well-known folks! Glad you solved!
                                                                  • Berto 7:23 · 2024-01-23T15:07:59.621Z
                                                                    I got hung up on thinking the names on the left had one second name in common, and those on the right (e.g. Terry Jones, Grace Jones, etc.) - but then realized they had to be all different actors. There must be loads, how do I… aha the clue is in the clues!!! Lots of googling needed (forgive me, not from these shores lol) - but got there! Fun puzzle!
                                                                    • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-24T22:20:52.189Z
                                                                      Oh, well done! Thanks so much for solving!
                                                                    • Byron 🤓8:34 · 2024-01-25T20:36:37.119Z
                                                                      Wonderful puzzle! Tight cluing, good fill, clever meta. I needed to use Google to find a few of them, but this was great!
                                                                      • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-26T22:50:53.535Z
                                                                        Wow, thank you very much for these kind words, Byron! So glad you enjoyed solving.
                                                                      • supercruciverbalistic 🤓9:43 · 2024-01-26T00:24:37.046Z
                                                                        fun puzzle, thanks!
                                                                        • Wendy Walker costruttore · 2024-01-26T22:51:03.207Z
                                                                          You are very welcome!
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                                                                        Orizzontali
                                                                        1. 1A
                                                                          Fraud
                                                                        2. 5A
                                                                          Play that introduced the word "robot"
                                                                        3. 8A
                                                                          "Vissi d'arte" and "O mio bambino caro"
                                                                        4. 13A
                                                                          ___ Sutra
                                                                        5. 14A
                                                                          GI entertainers
                                                                        6. 15A
                                                                          Material for cozy wraps (but not of the mink variety)
                                                                        7. 16A
                                                                          ___ out (end gradually; good-bye!)
                                                                        8. 17A
                                                                          Entrepreneurs' org.
                                                                        9. 18A
                                                                          Coral structures
                                                                        10. 19A
                                                                          Naps
                                                                        11. 21A
                                                                          Federal narcotics agcy.
                                                                        12. 23A
                                                                          "No ifs, ___, or buts!"
                                                                        13. 24A
                                                                          Pervert
                                                                        14. 26A
                                                                          Invoice for meatballs, perhaps
                                                                        15. 30A
                                                                          Focus keenly on a task
                                                                        16. 31A
                                                                          Away from the wind
                                                                        17. 32A
                                                                          "___ the Wind" (Kansas hit with a great hook)
                                                                        18. 36A
                                                                          Another name for a German shepherd
                                                                        19. 38A
                                                                          Get used to
                                                                        20. 39A
                                                                          Suffix for fist or fruit
                                                                        21. 40A
                                                                          "___ say, not ..." (order from a parent who's setting a bad example)
                                                                        22. 41A
                                                                          Syrian capital
                                                                        23. 43A
                                                                          Tea that might soothe young, restless ones
                                                                        24. 44A
                                                                          Apple model
                                                                        25. 45A
                                                                          ___ band (multitasking musician)
                                                                        26. 47A
                                                                          Make a small cut in, as some sharp-edged weeds can do
                                                                        27. 48A
                                                                          Sticky stuff
                                                                        28. 49A
                                                                          Pop
                                                                        29. 53A
                                                                          Jr.'s father
                                                                        30. 54A
                                                                          Joined for another stint
                                                                        31. 56A
                                                                          Fold, as in a kilt
                                                                        32. 60A
                                                                          Battery size
                                                                        33. 62A
                                                                          Dignity plus poise, as a swan might display
                                                                        34. 63A
                                                                          Pry open, like a burglar might do to a rear window
                                                                        35. 64A
                                                                          Tote
                                                                        36. 65A
                                                                          Yellow Teletubby
                                                                        37. 66A
                                                                          Malice
                                                                        38. 67A
                                                                          Opposite of NNW
                                                                        39. 68A
                                                                          "___-bitsy spider"
                                                                        Verticali
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                                                                          Quantity of yarn
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                                                                          Detested
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                                                                          Made ___ of (handled badly)
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                                                                          Place to shop
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                                                                          Country now at war with Ukraine
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                                                                          PC port
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                                                                          Per John Flynn's song, "Bambi parmesan" is on the menu at the ___ Cafe
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                                                                          Razor brand
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                                                                          Ending for ent or sir
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                                                                          Anger
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                                                                          Bark
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                                                                          Network (abbr.)
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                                                                          Free TV or radio spot
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                                                                          A ___ apple
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                                                                          Ages
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                                                                          Parts of a contract
                                                                        17. 26D
                                                                          Maestro's wand
                                                                        18. 27D
                                                                          Trojan War epic
                                                                        19. 28D
                                                                          Rental agreement
                                                                        20. 29D
                                                                          Soviet dictator
                                                                        21. 30D
                                                                          Passes away
                                                                        22. 32D
                                                                          Bumped off
                                                                        23. 33D
                                                                          Native Americans who lived in the Delaware Valley
                                                                        24. 34D
                                                                          Poisonous shrub
                                                                        25. 35D
                                                                          Keep tabs on
                                                                        26. 37D
                                                                          Game point for the server
                                                                        27. 39D
                                                                          Grave events?
                                                                        28. 42D
                                                                          Ears with kernels
                                                                        29. 43D
                                                                          "Penny ___" (Beatles classic)
                                                                        30. 46D
                                                                          Optical illusion
                                                                        31. 49D
                                                                          Type of herring
                                                                        32. 50D
                                                                          Milky-white gems
                                                                        33. 51D
                                                                          Rot
                                                                        34. 52D
                                                                          Gator chaser
                                                                        35. 53D
                                                                          Eye ailment
                                                                        36. 55D
                                                                          Wrinkly citrus fruit
                                                                        37. 56D
                                                                          Bed clothes
                                                                        38. 57D
                                                                          Backtalk
                                                                        39. 58D
                                                                          UK record label
                                                                        40. 59D
                                                                          Qty.
                                                                        41. 61D
                                                                          Switz. neighbor
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