The answer to the meta is a computer-animated short film
Ewe will have to excuse the puns, but meta puzzles come in all sheeps and sizes. If I can ram the point home, this one is definitely on the herd side! But if you keep at it ewe will find the answer to the meta, which is a computer-animated short film. Happy new shear, everyone! Answer & explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=116386#p116386
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Alex Sisti solved 2022-12-27T13:50:44.530Z
Meg solved 2022-12-27T14:50:22.688Z
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Meg 2s · 2022-12-27T14:50:43.061Z
Now to backsolve!
rjy 11s · 2022-12-27T16:08:42.220Z
Same… my love of Pixar had me try Boundin first, then Purl. But why? There are P, U, R, L kind of adjacent to the asterisked entries, but I couldn’t construct some sort of circle or oval that contained them, particularly starting from within the entries. At a loss for backsolving this…
Pm me on the forum if you want a nudge. I don’t want to put the 4 things here because I think a lot of people will get the meta answer without seeing them and I don’t want to spoil anything.
Meg 2s · 2022-12-27T16:50:44.926Z
I found them all! Thanks to a helpful Muggle.
Jaclyn 7:05 · 2022-12-27T21:15:03.921Z
I also got the answer without knowing why. I did that with the MMM this week, too. Not sure what to make of that!
Darth 21:25 · 2022-12-27T22:01:02.041Z
I got the answer via the metanism, but needed Google to confirm as a movie title. Thanks, Ben.
Joe 9:51 · 2022-12-27T22:46:04.373Z
Same as Darth, I needed to Google once I got to the answer. My fault and not the puzzle's, certainly. But I'm a film nerd! Can't wait to watch it now.
Okay...... so if we take the letters after the last letters in JIMBO and MENS, and the letters before the last letters in KEBS and JLO and we get P,U,R,L but... that can't be it.....
Okay, not searching on films about sheep but about knitting. Okay. What the heck is the knitting circle supposed to mean.
I'd kind of like it if the BO's in JIMBO, HOBO, BORAT, etc. referred to little BO peep, but I know they don't.
I K Snamhcok 1s · 2022-12-27T23:46:08.465Z
Like some here, I have the answer, and I see the P-U-R-L more or less contained, but I don’t yet understand the metanism. Meg, you may be hearing from me via PM. In the meantime, my wife — a knitter, not a puzzler — is taking a look.
Very intricately woven together, Ben!
Got the mechanism, then enough of the answer to infer, and confirm on google. Finally found how to get the last letter; had been aiming for the wrong L!
BarbaraK 3s · 2022-12-28T04:31:25.238Z
Wanted to put "stitch and bitch" in 40A; that's what I've always heard them called :)
Took a bit to parse that central clue. First thing I tried didn't work. (Looks like we're not posting spoilers here for the folks who guess the movie and then figure out the mechanism?) But once I got one I was sure of, the rest were easy enough to find.
Barbara K turned me on to this puzzle as knitting is one of our mutual hobbies (along with, of course, meta puzzles). The movie looks terrific. Thanks, Ben!
Oh my gosh, Ben! That is so sweet of you! Today I came across the lengthy customs form for shipping the prize and I had the satisfaction of tossing it out, knowing the gift had safely reached its destination.
DrTom 30:36 · 2022-12-28T22:23:24.373Z
The first time I filled in the grid and just went with the sheepy Pixar film I saw BOUNDIN. When that was not right I went back tp try to do it right, and this time I succeeded; guess I should not have been such a knit wit.
Title of the film with the subtitle "Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan"
11A
Big shot (abbr.)
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On the periphery
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Her most recent album was titled "30"
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Anger
17A
* One of the bullies in "The Simpsons", ___ Jones
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Make more pleasant
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"___ on your life!" (never!)
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Suffix for hero (if the hero is a she)
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21st in an alphabetised list of geometric exact locations
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* Part of a department store for those looking for "masculine" clothing
24A
___ Entertainment, who produced "The Return of the Pink Panther" and "The Dark Crystal" (abbr.)
25A
Ear-related
27A
Battle scar
32A
"Seal" in French (or, if you would prefer, Georges ___, the international jurist and member of the United Nations International Law Commission from its inception)
36A
Region
37A
Vader's daughter
39A
Actor Morales and namesakes
40A
Groups of crafters who meet to discuss wool-related projects and exchange yarns, that start in the asterisked entries and what you need to look inside of to find the answer to the meta (although, to be honest, they are more like ovals)
43A
Itty-bitty
44A
Reps.
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Vagabond
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Curriculum vitae
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Auction house founded in London
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* Abbr. for the Bureau of Standards of Kenya
52A
"___ the land of the free..."
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Best Picture of 1958
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Make another request, for short
59A
* "Out of Sight" star, familiarly
62A
Praiseful poem
63A
Drug agent, slangily
64A
Cross-dressing Chinese warrior, as seen in a Disney animated film
66A
Lair
67A
"That's true; however..."
68A
Lake in Northern Finland, to Swedes
69A
Day after Fri.
70A
Takes a breather
71A
Cities, but before they get big enough to call a city
Verticali
1D
Asian berry marketed as a "superfood"
2D
Building that has seen better days
3D
"Come __, bro!" (let's start fighting)
4D
Wyo. neighbor
5D
"___ the ground, and give me 20!"
6D
Gurbani Judge, better known as VJ ___
7D
Vision-impaired Norse god (who makes up for it with his ravens, apparently)
8D
Verso's opposite
9D
Indigenous Alaskans
10D
Mathematical base that we all use all the time
11D
Climbing plant
12D
Main element in steel
13D
Teachers' favorites
22D
Latin eyes
23D
Dutch artist, much beloved by mathematicians for his tessellations and impossible drawings
24D
Japanese city on the Edo River, a center for the manufacture of textiles
26D
Bakery employee who adds the inscription to a cake
27D
One who disturbs a sleeping dog
28D
Wild water buffalo (Bubalus ___)
29D
"Take the ___" (steer, but in the days before cars)
30D
"99 Luftballons" singer
31D
Actor who originated the dual roles of the Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in the musical "Hamilton", Daveed ___
33D
Arabic name for the Egyptian balsam tree (and an anagram of "ballo")
34D
"___ omission" (leave out an important fact in order to foster a misconception)
35D
Land east of Westeros and north of Sothoryos and Ulthos
38D
Alternative name for the prelude in a play?
41D
Fourth herb in the Simon & Garfunkle song, but with its second letter removed for no other reason than to make this clue possible
42D
"How do ___ this thing?" (it's out of control!)
47D
It keeps your car in place, slangily
49D
Cyclist's protection
51D
Belgrade natives
53D
7 down and Thor, for example
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Thought or concept
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Someone who might might buy things in 23 across, for short
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"___ above the rest"
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Pans partners
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"The Hunger Games" star, familiarly
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"That'll ___ ya!"
61D
___ and zeros (binary digits)
63D
Neither partner
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What you call when you only have a single card left in the game of the same name