What to say about this. I wanted a return to old-fashioned straightforward metas. The one is probably kind of hard because the theme mechanism actually, to my surprise, worked really well, and thus hid themselves. On the other hand this might be…
I think this is an original mechanism. I've certainly never seen it before. It's novelty may make this tough but I hope it's very easy to find the first foothold.
Difficulty level: 1... And I'm sticking with it. They don't get easier than this.
.... but the grid.... The grid may (or may not) be gruesome.
I once joked about a meta prompt being something like "The answer to the meta is a fifth track on the…
So.... this is based on what I hoped was the Metanism of the latest WSJ contest. I don't think it was (I haven't solved it yet.... this is one of those days where it's easier to redo a puzzle than to solve it.)
Okay.... Look. "Round Five" means…
Okay. I have corrected this. It's a fun one and should be easy to guess. But try to backsolve.
I warned you I'd do this!
But don't worry. Just have fun and don't take it seriously.
Nudge 1: Considering the theme is "The Sea" there sure isn't much about the sea in this puzzle
Nudge 2: Maybe all mentions of the theme have been deliberately omitted
Nudge 3: So put the mentions back in....
Nudge 4: It's a meta. So go meta-ing.
Nu…
Nudge 2: Maybe all mentions of the theme have been deliberately omitted
Nudge 3: So put the mentions back in....
Nudge 4: It's a meta. So go meta-ing.
Nu…
Order? I'm out of order? You're out of order! This whole [#four-letter word#] puzzle is out of ..... alignment
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So I figured this one may be hard but I hope it has a good AHA moment and then (if you remember that this is a standard meta with usual metaisms) you can real it home safely. Once you get the aha, that's where all the difficulty is.
I thought of…
I came across a mention of Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" and thought it'd be a great title for a meta. I think the mechanism is standard but has a slightly original twist to it. But the grid fought me all the way.
So. LET THE…
Difficulty Rating: If you don't have a musical degree and you don't google--- impossible. If you google-- hmmm, I dunno.
Extra Clues to be entered into the grid but in neither across nor down:
A. Father of the New Deal, Franklin Roosevelt, spoke of…