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Duck Out

· Di Lydia Roth and Philip Chow · Pubblicato da Pair O Ducks · Pubblicato 2024-04-28T12:00:56.343Z

Meta Prompt
The meta answer is something you might duck out of.
Nudges:
  1. Huh, I could have sworn there were some ducks around here somewhere! Looks like they all ducked out.
  2. You'll need to put four ducks back in their proper place.
  3. Gee, these ducky entries all "pair" nicely with another clue!
  4. Sure enough, we're doing alternate entries again. Google is your friend, in case some of these aren't familiar.
Controllo se esistono file di gioco salvati...

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Commenti

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  • Capn Rick 8s · 2024-04-28T12:30:26.756Z
    Great collaboration, Lydia & Phil! Thanks again for SSS puzzle!
    • Darth 8:41 · 2024-04-28T13:56:58.338Z
      Cool collab! Thanks! =)
      • whimsy 9:16 · 2024-04-28T14:29:28.102Z
        Pretty smooth even for me who didn't know Nintendo or Disney! 😄 Thank you Lydia and Phil!
        • boharr 2s · 2024-04-28T14:19:09.366Z
          Great fun. Thanks guys.
          • MatthewL 🤓5:09 · 2024-04-28T14:26:47.940Z
            Thanks for the puzzle, Team!
            • lbray53 3s · 2024-04-28T14:52:27.147Z
              Nicely done!
              • michaelm 10:03 · 2024-04-28T14:43:31.522Z
                OBVIOUSly you are both nominated as ELDERS of the SSS metaverse for encouraging such slacking. Thanks!
                • KayW 🤓4:14 · 2024-04-28T14:46:32.320Z
                  This meta is just ducky - congrats on a wonderful duo debut! Thanks.
                  • Mwoychick 6:56 · 2024-04-28T15:11:35.610Z
                    Thanks for the puzzle - I'm ducking out of work later this week to attend not one but two graduations at U of U (daughter and son) - Go Utes!
                    • Philip Chow 5s · 2024-04-28T14:18:10.159Z
                      🦆 got any grapes? waddle waddle 🦆
                      • AuLeaf 🤓3:52 · 2024-04-28T17:16:54.964Z
                        sir, this is a lemonade stand
                        • AuLeaf 🤓3:52 · 2024-04-28T17:21:02.417Z
                          (also, thanks for the puzzle <3 )
                          • Mikey G 🤓2:22 · 2024-04-28T20:07:11.844Z
                            I'm happy I got this reference lol
                            • Bird Lives 🤓6:05 · 2024-04-28T21:51:21.201Z
                              I didn't know this as a song. I do know it as an old joke but set in a bar. The bartender eventually threatens, "If you gome in here one time asking for grapes, I'm going to nail your bill to the bar." . . . "Got any nails?"
                            • woozy 🤓10:19 · 2024-04-28T15:46:57.384Z
                              Cute as a button!
                              And not all that obvious either.
                              • Wendy Walker 5s · 2024-04-28T15:53:55.726Z
                                Fun and everything an SSS should be! Thanks.
                                • ajk 🤓5:46 · 2024-04-28T16:26:59.416Z
                                  Very fun stuff, thanks. :) Had to stare for a bit before DUCK SOUP jumped out, and the rest fell quickly. Had some trouble filling the SE corner, since Disney/church/video games are all weak spots. Didn't help that I couldn't spell OEUVRE for a while (apparently my terrible spelling beat out my semi-decent French). 😆 But none of that is the puzzle's fault. :) Very jealous of the 41D clue! Just right for an SSS. Thanks again.
                                  • kurtalert 🤓3:05 · 2024-04-28T17:08:17.977Z
                                    Beauty - nice and smooth from start to finish, grid & meta!
                                    • Qmark 3s · 2024-04-28T17:39:32.980Z
                                      Very fun...thanks folks!
                                      • Laura M 🤓5:38 · 2024-04-28T19:19:55.252Z
                                        Fun, thanks!
                                        • Sharkicicles 2s · 2024-04-28T19:08:02.884Z
                                          Speaking of Chinese duck, now I want to go back to sun wa for their traditional whole duck meal. Duck, duck soup, duck rice, duck noodles…
                                          • Mikey G 🤓2:22 · 2024-04-28T20:08:09.397Z
                                            Drakes to the left of me Mallards to the right And here I am Duck in the middle with you
                                            • Tyrpmom 2s · 2024-04-28T21:01:36.120Z
                                              Cute. Thanks.
                                              • Bird Lives 🤓6:05 · 2024-04-28T21:53:21.879Z
                                                Good teamwork. I knew only two of these, video games and Disney shows not being exactly in my wheelhouse, or even in my house.
                                                • An Ephemeral Collation 🤓2:38 · 2024-04-28T21:25:23.659Z
                                                  Very nice puzzle! Not sure if anything in the grid was directly hinting at the meta, but I'm glad I got it nonetheless. My only critique is that the clue for 47-A would benefit from the word 'series' added to the end of it as I don't believe that there is a game featuring that character which is eponymously titled, even though said character's name appears in many titles within that series. Looking forward to solving more of your work!
                                                  • Pair O Ducks editore · 2024-04-28T23:54:02.388Z
                                                    I knew somebody would call us out on the KIRBY clue! We settled for the compromise so it would also clue Duck HUNT, which unfortunately is not a Nintendo character, franchise, or series. Hope it didn't hold you back too much!
                                                    • Philip Chow 5s · 2024-04-28T23:22:21.845Z
                                                      Thank you so much for solving and for your kind words :) Lydia and I discussed during the creation of our puzzle and we intentionally kept the clue vague on KIRBY due to the intended solve-path for the meta puzzle:
                                                      The title "Duck Out" hints at phrases where the word DUCK is removed... so we have DUCK SAUCE, DUCK HUNT, DUCK SOUP, DUCK TALES... then the next step is to figure out that there is a different entry in the puzzle whose clue may be used to get these four "duck" phrases... duck sauce, (a chinese takeout condiment) = WONTON, duck soup (an idiom for something that's easy) = OBVIOUS, duck tales (a Disney show) = RECESS, and duck hunt (an NES video game) = KIRBY... the first letters wonton, obvious, recess, and kirby spell out WORK... So you are correct in that there is no video game simply titled "Kirby" since Kirby refers to the character itself or the franchise. But we kind of cheated a little and had to force the cluing angle to make "duck hunt" work :)... hope this helps clears things up! and if you like meta puzzles, there is a whole super friendly and fun community here dedicated to solving them: https://www.xword-muggles.com/
                                                      • Sharkicicles 2s · 2024-04-29T04:09:02.229Z
                                                        Funny story why Kirby is Kirby… he’s actually named after a Nintendo lawyer who helped them in a frivolous lawsuit against Universal, King Kong vs Donkey Kong.
                                                        • Philip Chow 5s · 2024-04-29T14:01:52.768Z
                                                          i love this fun fact! i only recently learned about it and it may have inspired a recent puzzle of mine as well 😜
                                                          • Sharkicicles 2s · 2024-04-29T15:58:17.626Z
                                                            Have you read the book Game Over? It’s a history of Nintendo written when they were still king of the gaming world. Loved it.
                                                            • Philip Chow 5s · 2024-04-29T17:12:03.684Z
                                                              i haven't - i'll have to check it out!
                                                    • Hector 🤓5:28 · 2024-04-28T20:27:23.201Z
                                                      Quacked me up, thanks!
                                                      • DrTom 🤓11:19 · 2024-04-28T22:01:18.756Z
                                                        Nice collaboration, why you could say it was just ducky! I searched for the Marx Brothers for a while since Duck Soup is a classic. However, since I could not find Marx or Rufus T. Firefly I went with the obvious....
                                                        As a former UTE I am always glad to see them in a puzzle (and with those vowels they often are). I'll even forego my rude joke about ELDERS, though since I heard it in SLC perhaps Mr. Woychick already knows it? Two UTES Mark? Sounds like a job for my cousin Vinny!
                                                        I look forward to more from Pair-O-Ducks/Schmidzy
                                                        Oh, and while we are making duck references (grape try!) here is a duck soup one:
                                                        "Ambassador Trentino: I didn't come here to be insulted!"
                                                        "Rufus T. Firefly: That's what you think!"
                                                        • Eric Porter 4s · 2024-04-28T23:21:52.181Z
                                                          I wasn't aware of the alternate meaning of "duck soup". I would have had a harder time if I hadn't recently seen a similar puzzle. Thanks!
                                                          • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓2:03 · 2024-04-29T04:34:20.708Z
                                                            Same, that was news to me! But having the other three letters (W, R, and K) I eventually got it by backsolving. So now I’ve learned!
                                                            • TerminatorX 🤓6:22 · 2024-04-29T13:36:55.596Z
                                                              Yes... I was all "certainly there is a 1930s comedy in here somewhere that starts with "O"?
                                                              • Philip Chow 5s · 2024-04-29T14:09:17.109Z
                                                                i was also unfamiliar with the idiom "DUCK SOUP" as well... it's not so OBVIOUS but glad to have learned something new... prior to publishing the puzzle, we made sure there were no potential/unintended red herrings with the Marx Brothers film so I scanned the Marx Brothers filmography to make sure no other title words were represented in the grid
                                                              • Carolyn 2s · 2024-04-29T01:34:06.257Z
                                                                Cute!
                                                                • Hidden in 3D 3s · 2024-04-29T14:54:17.859Z
                                                                  Thanks Lydia and Phil! What a fun way to start my Monday morning!
                                                                  • frostyjhammer 🤓6:55 · 2024-05-03T00:00:09.487Z
                                                                    Educated guess... now to backsolve that one letter
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                                                                    Divide, as crossword constructing responsibilities in a collab
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                                                                    Orizzontali
                                                                    1. 1A
                                                                      Divide, as crossword constructing responsibilities in a collab
                                                                    2. 6A
                                                                      Mole, for one
                                                                    3. 11A
                                                                      Cocktail that may be "bottomless" at brunch
                                                                    4. 13A
                                                                      Chinese takeout staple
                                                                    5. 14A
                                                                      Battery terminals
                                                                    6. 15A
                                                                      Lansbury who stars as an amateur sleuth in "Murder, She Wrote"
                                                                    7. 16A
                                                                      Salt Lake City college team
                                                                    8. 17A
                                                                      "So you travel a lot?" "Yeah, you could say I know the ___ and outs."
                                                                    9. 19A
                                                                      Mythical bird of prey
                                                                    10. 20A
                                                                      Yak, yak, yak
                                                                    11. 21A
                                                                      Urban haze
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                                                                      Search for Easter eggs
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                                                                      Off-limits stuff
                                                                    14. 25A
                                                                      Judith Light/Tony Danza sitcom "Who's the ___?"
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                                                                      Easy as pie
                                                                    16. 28A
                                                                      Scientifically engineered crops, for short
                                                                    17. 30A
                                                                      Pre-2000 animated Disney show
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                                                                      "No ___ for you!" ("Seinfeld" catchphrase)
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                                                                      God often depicted throwing lightning bolts
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                                                                      Sing with one's mouth closed
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                                                                      Reasons for end zone celebrations, for short
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                                                                      Schreiber who portrayed Sabretooth in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine"
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                                                                      Puff piece?
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                                                                      "He won three ___ Cups!" "He did what in his cup?" (quote from the Pixar film "Cars")
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                                                                      Keanu who sat on a bench eating a sandwich looking really sad
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                                                                      Risk-___ (prone to playing it safe)
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                                                                      Counterparts of deacons, in some churches
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                                                                      Whoppers
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                                                                      Classic Nintendo video game
                                                                    Verticali
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                                                                      Dragon in "The Hobbit" which Tolkien clarifies is not pronounced like 21-Across
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                                                                      Subtly suggest
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                                                                      Primordial blob
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                                                                      Cones' counterparts
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                                                                      Suffix for many jargons (including crossword___!)
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                                                                      Steinway & ___ (piano maker)
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                                                                      Lee who won Best Director for "Brokeback Mountain" and "Life of Pi"
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                                                                      Organ that contains the myometrium, one of the strongest muscles in the human body
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                                                                      Punctuation marks used in analogies
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                                                                      Establish as law
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                                                                      Sci-fi writer who wrote or edited more than 500 books
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                                                                      Wedding dress designer Vera
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                                                                      "Uh-uh-uh!"
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                                                                      Has a bawl
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                                                                      Gardening item (and homonym of some other gardening items!)
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                                                                      Sound accompanying an affectionate nose-poke
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                                                                      NFL team that Tom Brady spent his last three seasons with before finally retiring
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                                                                      Artist's body of work
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                                                                      Chocolatier named for a legendary naked horse rider
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                                                                      Seafood in moules-frites, Belgium's national dish
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                                                                      "___ me timbers!"
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                                                                      "Sublime!"
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                                                                      March honoree, for short
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                                                                      Fan's pub
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                                                                      All over the place
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                                                                      At a ___ for words (speechless)
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                                                                      Prefix with "cab" or "cure"
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                                                                      Amount past due?
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                                                                      Antlered animal on Michigan's state flag
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