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It's a Small World After All

◆◆ · Di woozy · Pubblicato 2024-12-26T19:00:40.665Z

Meta Prompt
It's a small world after all... after all
Okay. So... sometimes I sit around thinking "what would be a good title". And this one came to mind. I figured what the mechanism would have to be, but... sheesh, getting it all into a grid...
I don't know if this will be hard or ... just not easy. My advice is trust yourself. Even a wrong answer will get you somewhere. It is a small world after all.
Controllo se esistono file di gioco salvati...

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  • Hector solved 2024-12-27T03:41:26.654Z
  • whimsy solved 2024-12-27T21:09:53.020Z
  • markhr solved 2024-12-28T05:49:44.779Z
  • benchen71 solved 2024-12-28T05:56:47.966Z
  • LarsCaine solved 2024-12-28T16:03:37.182Z
  • HeadinHome solved 2024-12-28T22:04:59.139Z
  • Pair O Ducks solved 2024-12-29T11:28:28.044Z

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  • woozy costruttore · 2024-12-26T19:00:40.665Z
    So... There are 8 symmetrically placed entries whose clues include a "small world" after "all". They are:
    All [ju]st (JUPITER)-- LIFE
    Not at all [ur]gent (URANUS)-- IDLE
    All [ve]ry (VENUS)-- LEGAL
    All [me]ant (MERCURY)-- LET IT GO
    All [ma]de up (MARS)-- IMAGINE
    All [ea]rly (EARTH)-- PLATO
    Not at all [ne]w (NEPTUNE) -- USED
    All [sa]fe (Saturn)-- TUCK
    The first letters of these entry spell, LILLIPUT which is a small word, after all, but not the one I had in mind.
    The planets though can be described by clues elsewhere in the grid. Jupiter is a GAS GIANT as is a BLIMP, and Uranus is a mythical being associated with the sky as is LUNA. Venus and EROS are love gods, FREDDIE Mercury was the lead singer for Queen, Mars and U-NO are milk chocolate bars, Earh and SOIL are synonyms for dirt, Neptune and CETO are both sea deities, Saturn and UNION are defunct car brands.
    And those first letters spell... BLEFUSCU which was the island nation perpetually at war with Lilliput in "Gulliver's Travels". So the meta was a small world after all... after all.
    • Hector 45:05 · 2024-12-27T03:41:54.029Z
      What a rewarding solve. Thank you!
      • whimsy 17:52 · 2024-12-27T21:46:03.732Z
        I did find the Blue Clownfish -- gave that a try even though it didn't seem enough. Then considered its neighbor but couldn't see a way to get that answer. (JUVMMTNS? -- although I did try swapping out "early" for "the", hoping another vowel might help.) And simply "inferring" Blefuscu" didn't seem right in this case. With the nudges' reference to neighbor, I did finally submit it, and then played a reverse game of finding what entries/clues could relate to the planets (the concept of those never occuring to me!) I will say that it was an intricately constructed offering, woozy. Just that thinking of the other planetary worlds was a giant leap for me! In any event, thanks for the playtime!
        • benchen71 10:57 · 2024-12-28T05:58:49.624Z
          Lots of guesses (every planet in the solar system, then every place Gulliver travelled to, and then a place associated with Lilliput) to get to the eventual answer. Tricky one indeed!
          • woozy costruttore · 2024-12-28T16:53:50.161Z
            But Brobdingnag is a BIG world and Laputa is a flying world and, well, the rest are just weird worlds.
          • Mr Tex 16:52 · 2025-01-02T19:31:20.267Z
            FUN FACT: You used art from a scene I wrote for The Simpsons as your banner. So you had me. Then you attacked the Ice Age movies (mercilessly) in 50D. I also write those. So you lost me. As for the puzzle, I couldn't have solved this in 10,000 lifetimes.
            Play today's daily mini crossword
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            It's all just fun and games until you grow up-- then it's the daily grind until you die
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            1. 1A
              It's all just fun and games until you grow up-- then it's the daily grind until you die
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              Behaving in a not at all urgent manner
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              All very official and binding
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              Online rip-off site
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              Dirt
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              Fresh water eel (yum)
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              River through Berne
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              Cascaded violently down on your head
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              Frontman for Queen
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              Slanted typ. (or the count. its from?)
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              If I had one, they woudln't let me use a clue that was so ridled with error and such badly wrote
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              Thin
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              Out of danger
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              Bright, lustrous
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              Milk chocolate bar
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              Texas politician, O'Rourke, who wagered on the fourth vowel
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              When I had my first real job we referred to these cash sources "midnight confetti dispensers" when we'd go drinking after work on Fridays. (It was one part of the work culture that I greatly regret)
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              Camera support (um, how can that be stable?)
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              It was all meant in fun-- stop harping on it
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              Visualize things that are all made up and aren't real
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              Words of comfort ("You're not alone")
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              Weights of l.s of water
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              Singulars (in the plural)
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              It's 36A backwards, by coincidence
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              Defunct car brand
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              Love deity
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              Cooking vessels
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              Loathsome
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              Sea deity
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              In 1968 "The Split" was the first movie to get one of these. (Supposedly due to it's use of the words"crap" and "hell")
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              Skilled workers
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              "Do it, or ____"
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              It was conveyed to me via print
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              I don't want vacation at the headland in Wales! You have to choose: It's either ____ __ __.
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              Foundling placed on Popeye's doorstep: ____-pea
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              Of all the early philosophers, he's the most idealistic
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              Not at all new
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              ____ in; make a child all safe and secure at bedtime
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              Lateral outgrowth from a plant stem that is often a flattened expanded variably shaped greenish organ, constitutes a unit of the foliage, and functions primarily in food manufacture by photosynthesis
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              Construction beam named for a letter (not that letter; the skinny one)
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              What Charlie didn't have for the 45A
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              Looked over
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              "Did you not hear me the first time? _ ____...."
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              Entered with enthusiasm
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              "Re: But I saw ___'s sail. Was it Uber" (That was the subject line on the e-mail responding to a reported sighting of Miss Universe Paraguay 2022's wind propulsion and the speculation that she used it to transport customers)
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              2009 Tony-winner "Billy ___ the Musical"
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              Mythological being associated with the sky
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              Ltr. accompaniers
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              Cry of exasperation (such as when you see a witch in the mirror)
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              Mature
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              Jar top
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              "Re" in musical notation. (Assuming we are in Cee major)
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              ___ Hortons: Canadian coffee and donut chain
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              Actress Ida
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              How the asexual organisms came marching onto Noah's Ark? (I mean, it just makes sense, doesn't it?)
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              French liver that is delicious (albeit cruel) when it is gras
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              Genetic molecule
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              A short written message telling how old one is?
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              Deaf-mute museum assistant in 1953 "House of Wax" (who has little or nothing to do with, Fritz, the hunchbacked lab assistant in 1931 "Frankenstein")
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              One man play about the writer Capote
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              Pretend I'm not here
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              Ooh, colorful decorative pond fish!
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              1987 song by "The Jets"
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              That woman, in Barcelona
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              The most #@$!ing obnoxious character in the "Ice Age" movies, the most #@$ing obnoxious abomination of an animated franchise ever created.
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              Was he worthy of having his ashes placed in such an ornate receptacle? Well, whether or not he earned it, it _____ him.
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              "Inner" prefix
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              Try out for assessment
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              Dockworkers' 46A on the Pacific coast
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              A teeny tiny amt. of time
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              Someone who is likely to know the hunchback in "Frankenstein" was named, Fritz, and not 38D (I think the mistake came in 1973 when Mel Brooks confused it with Charles Bronson's character in "The House of Wax". I haven't found any references before then... Oh, but there I go ____ing out again.)
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              Dr. Doolittle's dog
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              Ear, nose and throat abbreviation
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              Norwich school estbl. in 1963 (motto is "Do different")
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              "___ Doubtfire"(A Robin Williams movie I've never had any desire to see)
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