"Grid Daring" - February 14, 2020
- tim1217
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I got SOAP right away and figured (right away) that the only logical 10-letter entertainment category had to be SOAP OPERAS, without even realizing that it also fit the same mechanism. And that’s my ‘unsatisfying’ issue with this meta. After finding SOAP, you could actually get the answer without any further work. At least in WONDER TWINS you had to work to find a cartoon duo that fit the answer into the same mechanism.
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OLTL TOLLED
DOOL NOODLE
ATWT WATTLE
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After I found SOAP, I interpreted HALF in 1A to perhaps be a hint that we would get only half the answer directly and need to infer the rest. So I submitted SOAP OPERAS and mostly stopped looking for letters that would confirm OPERAS. I say "mostly" because after some people implied that they had found confirmation for the second half, I looked for that a little while longer. Maybe the confirmation was just the realization that SOAP OPERAS follows the 4, 4+2 pattern of the theme answers and the title.
- Colin
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Well, I guess “ER” is a SOAP OPERA. Maybe that’s it?
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Just out of curiosity I wrote a little program to scan a small lexicon for words matching the 4-6 pattern with soap. Here is the result:
soap adopts
soap aprons
soap operas
soap parson
soap pastor
soap pathos
soap pianos
soap postal
soap potash
soap soaped
soap sophia
soap vapors
So I think "soap operas" is a pretty safe bet.
soap adopts
soap aprons
soap operas
soap parson
soap pastor
soap pathos
soap pianos
soap postal
soap potash
soap soaped
soap sophia
soap vapors
So I think "soap operas" is a pretty safe bet.
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A couple things that I'm not sure have been mentioned yet: Once I had the word SOAP, I looked back to the title. I immediately thought of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle operas which set me on a quest looking for operas hidden in the grid. No joy. Well, a quick Google search of "Soap opera character XXXXX" while tossing in the names Steph, Mona, Adam, and Ethel hit paydirt.
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I'm still unclear on how some people got part 2 but not part 1.
How did people get OPERAS out of the puzzle?
How did people get OPERAS out of the puzzle?
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It’s not an uncommon strategy to apply a technique several times to entries in the grid, and then apply it one more time to get the meta. I remembered this after I removed the romaine from my face.
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- eagle1279
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I spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to anagram FERKNSNAAN to a form of entertainment before I found the path to SOAP.
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Other possible titles which will produce the needed/desired "ER":
MATT MATTER
or
GAFF GAFFER
MATT MATTER
or
GAFF GAFFER
"Lots of planets have a North", the Ninth Doctor.
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What's general sentiment here on clues that are deceptive at first-- e.g., 48D, 43A, 46A? I see them as providing the pleasure of mini AHA moments.
Jay
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on that, I spent a TON of time staring at 40A, the presence of the K and R made me crazy to try to unpack something from the rest of the letters. Plus it's so unusual a grid entry that ... IT HAD TO MEAN SOMETHING.
Or not.
Or not.
"Lots of planets have a North", the Ninth Doctor.
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remember ... FEZZES are cool.MajordomoTom wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 4:39 pm If I'd not been "spelling challenged" (more later on that), I'd have had this either Thursday night or Friday morning.
But ... I fixed that and it fixed my answer.
I do like Matt Smith ...
I was expecting to be slapped down for this posting.
"Lots of planets have a North", the Ninth Doctor.
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I think I am happy I did not spend a whole lot of weekend time on the second and third steps!
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SHAM REHASH
THAT THREAT
THAT THREAT
"Lots of planets have a North", the Ninth Doctor.
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Try as hard as I could, I just wasn't able to get STRIPTEASE to work as a solution.
But TFTXWD anyway.
But TFTXWD anyway.
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Nor COW TIPPING
'tis... A lovely day for a Guinness!
- maprasad
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Perhaps the AN from "Grid Daring" and the ER from "Soap Operas" are ANswER?
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Replying to Eagle who spent time "trying to anagram FERKNSNAAN". I have a rule in solving these (attempting to solve): if there is an anagram necessary to the answer it is very short and obvious, so looking for anagrams to a 10 letter sequence means you are barking up the wrong rabbit hole.