"Downsides" - August 23, 2020

[hashbrown]

Thanks to Chris for bringing this new weekly puzzle to my attention! Grid was straightforward enough but yet to make any in-roads on a path to the meta solution... This has been given a 4/10 difficulty, or on par with Matt's Week 2's (the last of which I managed, but yet to get anywhere with the treasure hunting Week 3). Smooth solving all

[Abide]

Nice puzzle, which I was overthinking quite a bit. Needed a solid nudge to get on the Will train. Thank you Will!

[C=64]

I enjoyed looking up and learning about the lesser-known sites, which was necessary because I had a couple of Naticks and needed to verify their spellings.

At first glance before beginning the puzzle, I predicted that the meta mechanism would be easy to identify but all I've found so far is alphabet soup. I have to grade some math projects today, but I'll come back to it this evening during the intermissions of the Bruins-Lightning game.

[Cindy]

Solved

[AnswerPfinder]

Hi folks!
Sounds like this one ended up being a bit trickier than anticipated (which of my puzzles haven't been harder than anticipated?).
Glad some people are catching on! As always, don't hesitate to ask if you need a hint!

[Meg]

The puzzle is solved in my house. I am not completely responsible for that. But I had fun!

[oldjudge]

Dino Me

[boharr]

Nudged onto the Will train.

[Hector]

Too much reliance on Wikipedia led me astray on the first step . . . be careful out there!

[BarbaraK]

Dinosaurs on the train? Okay, I’m there.

Clever puzzle. I concur with the suggestions to not overthink it.

Either Will is incredibly fast replying to submissions, or I’ve had very lucky timing the two weeks I’ve been playing.

[Anita]

Got this one very quickly without even a nudge. Fun!

[Laura M]

Solved and confirmed! Nice!

[Dplass]

Dinosaurs on the train? Okay, I’m there.

Clever puzzle. I concur with the suggestions to not overthink it.

Either Will is incredibly fast replying to submissions, or I’ve had very lucky timing the two weeks I’ve been playing.

Will is fast. Can confirm.

[AnswerPfinder]

I turn into a couch potato on Sunday as I try to watch the email account as closely as possible. But during the rest of the week, my response times vary widely.

[ChrisKochmanski]

Got it! Though I needed the nudge from Will. And also some perspective from my wife Lynne, who’s a retired ... oh, wait, I shouldn’t say because it could maybe give a hint (though not likely). Like some others here, I was initially overthinking. Fun puzzle!

[C=64]

Solved with a shove from Will. Nice puzzle but I muffed it.

[MikeM000]

This one was very impressively constructed....good to have a creator tell you in the instructions "go ahead and google stuff!" And the stuff I googled was very enjoyably educational and led me directly to the solution.