May 2024 Contest - Gimmick Midi | Crosshare crossword puzzle

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Drive away

Orizzontali

1A
Drive away
6A
Quick, informal appraisal of legitimacy or correctness
10A
Collapses
11A
How sloppy kissers kiss
12A
Dubbed
14A
Hellenic H's
15A
Ascend
16A
Include discreetly in an email, for short
17A
Sound of disapproval
18A
Site with step-by-step guides
20A
Part to play
21A
Send, as payment
23A
Present tense of 23D
24A
Kin
26A
Unemotionality
27A
Discourage

Verticali

1D
Film holders
2D
____ May Clampett of "The Beverly Hillbillies"
3D
"Thx" counterpart
4D
British prep school
5D
Actor Burton of "Roots", "Reading Rainbow", and "Star Trek: TNG"
6D
Quick freehand drawers
7D
Elected sachem of the Wampanoag people known as King Philip (1638–1676)… or a comet about a comet (?? I don't know, I guess you know this or you don't)
8D
Half steps, in music
9D
Styled like Mr. Clean or Kojak or Professor X or Dr. Evil or Gru or Lex Luthor (why are these characters all White men?)
11D
SI unit of magnetic flux equivalent to a volt-second (through Faraday's law of induction)
13D
Feints on the rink
19D
Pleasantly pass the hours, with "away"
20D
Joaquin's late brother commemorated in a song by Natalie Merchant
22D
Container weight allowance deducted on a scale
23D
Infinitive of 23A
25D
Explosive initials

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kurtalert 🤓2:30 · 11 mesi fa

Hah, nicely done!

Sendhil Revuluri costruttore · 11 mesi fa
Thank you!

Sam 🤓5:31 · 11 mesi fa

Fun solve! Are there multiple solutions for 23A/23D? You've got DINE, LINE, MINE, and PINE. Maybe I missed part of the gimmick.

Sendhil Revuluri costruttore · 11 mesi fa
That is an even better idea! (Normally I would say that this was just sloppy construction, but now I can use the gimmick as an excuse )
woozy 17:03 · 11 mesi fa
I had fine with isn't a solution.

heron 5:22 · 11 mesi fa

was expecting O in the slot! i'm a bit confused why it's E--is it because it stands for "eye"?

OH i just got it--really nice construction!!

Sendhil Revuluri costruttore · 11 mesi fa
Thank you! I was thinking about adding a hint to the Constructor Note, or else circles of the diagonals. Thoughts?
- heron 5:22 · 11 mesi fa
  i think marking the diagonals with circles would make it clearer
- woozy 17:03 · 11 mesi fa
  Definitely need a constructor note. I'm completely baffled.

riotblob 7:17 · 11 mesi fa

aha, I didn't spot the gimmick, and had FINE/FINES for 23A/23D, so got myself a bit stuck. clever construction! I agree that circling the diagonals would make it easier to work out (I had put an O)

I'm not sure about 19D - I only know this as "WHILE away the hours", where the past tense versuon would be WHILED.

Sendhil Revuluri costruttore · 11 mesi fa
Thanks for solving and for the feedback! (I added some alternate solutions for the 23A/23D crossing per @strom's suggestion. I'll add some in the center square too. I don't think I can add circles now, unfortunately!)

woozy 17:03 · 11 mesi fa

Okay. I'm dense. I don't get the center square or the flashing alternate answers. What's going on?

Sendhil Revuluri costruttore · 11 mesi fa
Totally valid! The initial solution for the center square was "E" — and was only a white square at all because of the "Gimmick" theme. The reason it was an "E" was because the seed of the grid was the diagonals of "E" in the whole grid. But several folks said that it wasn't clear (especially without those "E" squares being circled) so I added in some alternate solutions that seemed "natural" — again, mainly leaning into the "gimmick".

May 2024 Contest - Gimmick Midi

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