Joe Ross wrote: ↑Mon Sep 23, 2019 12:04 am
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FOR GOOD MEASURE - September 20, 2019
Rule #1: Investigate in
CLUE ORDER first.
FWIW: Everything not bordered in red was created by 6:30 PM, Thursday. I found myself repeating myself mentally, not listening myself, & annoyed at the hub-bub I was creating & ignoring.
The path to the correct answer - bordered in red - took maybe 10 minutes, Friday morning. Had I followed
Rule #1, I would have solved Thursday.
Joe:
Your legendary work is, once again, amazing and revealing, but even moreso on this occasion, as it must be, due to the odd reaches in this meta by Mike Shenk. Your prowess is proven, and your comments to the monster’s creator too kind. Alternatively, may be I still don’t get it. Perhaps, this time, surely you deserve to say, “I can explain it to you, but I can’t understand it for you.” That will be fine, since I’m sure there must be many this week who hoped they were on the heavenly shore, only requiring rescue early this morning. Hopefully no one drowned, though I suspect many livers are now at risk, and future meta-cruises may require designated drivers, or at least a 3rd category for those MIA, for record keeping purposes by our CD, since they (we) were neither on the boat or ashore in the AM. BTW, anyone given thought to not allowing the vote for degree of difficulty or the designated ashore status until after the official posting of the answer. Surely that would be more accurate. How would that work? Never mind. Chaulk this up to SBT (sea biscuit toxicity), or more likely MBS (meta newbie syndrome), known to often improve with time, though there are incurable subtypes.
I did find the grid to be impressive, inspiring, and of great interest. The hare-brained holes had this rabbit studying the origin and the supremacy of the METRIC SYSTEM, now, I believe, the rule in all but 3 countries. I enjoyed learning the history and the facts. I was led to read and watch physics videos on quantization of energy into discrete packets of QUANTUM MECHANICS. (Note there is no Q in the grid), lending appreciation to the derivation of PLANCKS CONSTANT (which, ironically, one can find in scattered but organized form in the top 10 rows, in a wondrous, yes, descending ordered EMMAA fashion, in the completed grid. Nota bene R-C (row- collumn): PLANCKS P 1-4, L 2-8, A 3-5, N 4-13, C 7-1, K 8-15, S 9-15; CONSTANT C 1-10, O 2-9, N 4-13, S 5-13, T 6-5, A 7-13, N 9-9, T 10-3. Now, I didn’t actually search for the known constant, {Its value in metre-kilogram-second units is 6.62607004 × 10−34 joule∙second, with a standard uncertainty of 0.000000081 × 10−34 joule∙second}, but it just might be in there somewhere, but it is more simplistically stated as the lower case symbol, h, a challenging thing in a crossword where numbers and lower cases are not allowed!
IMHO, I would have been much more impressed with a more global answer, such as the ones I have listed Above in CAPS, even if in pig latin, than “a unit of measure,” with the dubious, yes, unholy grail PINT. {Note to Mike, if he reads this, and I imagine he will - dare I say “pint sized” and pitiful, uninspiring contest answer.}
My conclusion: Joe, I find your daunting task to simplify and tame this monster “for good measure”, even had it lacked the beauty of “in living color” like the NBC Peacock, much more admirable than the comparitavely unfinished, dull creature, which never quite measured up, despite all our collective efforts.