Published weekly by expert constructor Peter Gordon, the Fireball crossword is famous for being hard. How hard? Well, in the words of Peter Gordon, if you need to ask, too hard for you! It is not regularly a meta crossword, but does feature a contest or meta puzzle several times throughout the year. Available here for a subscription: http://www.fireballcrosswords.com
What four-letter word is hinted at by this puzzle? (FB13-17)
Rules: Email me (at the address below) the word no later than 6 p.m. (Eastern time) on Sunday, April 24.
You can enter only once, so be sure before hitting the "Send" button.
One person chosen at random from the correct entries will win a free subscription to Year 14 of Fireball Crosswords, digital copies of the puzzles from
Grid gave me a headache, though I think I have done it with at least one clue (4D) something I never heard of. I see the first step, for sure, but the next step still eludes me.
So nice to see a Fireball contest. This one was fun. Not too hard, but not over-easy either. Fingers crossed for a muggle winning the prize package.
If you want help with a meta, feel free to PM me. The more specific you are about what you have and what you want, the more likely I can help without spoiling.
(And if I help you win a mug, Iโll be especially delighted.)
Likewise extinguished. Friday NYT grid, week 2 Gaffney meta. I definitely agree with the comment above that it's both easy to make a mistake on step two and easy to correct it.
The "State Farm Stadium" clue should definitely have ", on scoreboards" appended to the end of it. That really threw me off.
I never did manage to make sense of that one either
If you want help with a meta, feel free to PM me. The more specific you are about what you have and what you want, the more likely I can help without spoiling.
(And if I help you win a mug, Iโll be especially delighted.)
I never did manage to make sense of that one either
It's just that: "Underfunded" and "Short" are synonyms; terms for "doesn't have enough money"
Just did a puzzle, and the clue was
โSingleton, for one: Abbr.โ
Ha! Not gonna fool me again! Put SYN right in there. Thank you, Al!
If you want help with a meta, feel free to PM me. The more specific you are about what you have and what you want, the more likely I can help without spoiling.
(And if I help you win a mug, Iโll be especially delighted.)
