Crossroads

[HeadinHome]

Got this done this morning on Crosshare but forgot to post here. This was amazing!! OTC

[KayW]

OTC - Amazing construction, and fun to solve. Thanks!

[hcbirker]

OTC. Great puzzle Jay!

When my husband and I went to Boston we ditched the rental car pretty quick. Public transit was way better!

[benchen71]

Off the couch. Stunning meta, Jay!

[Abide]

MMM saves the meta weekend. Great job, Jay!

[Bird Lives]

On Day One, thirty-six intrepid and resourceful souls got up of the couch and crossed the crossroads.
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Nudges tomorrow.

[Al Sisti]

Before I start on this meta, I have some confusion about the picture.

I am not familiar with that configuration. Here in the Boston area we have roads coming together at odd angles and we have rotaries which are ruled by the person with the oldest and most beat up cars. And local customs rule as no one knows the laws. On the rare occasion that we actually have four roads coming together at right angles, invariably there are stop signs on three of them and nothing on the fourth. Only the locals know which road is the one without the stop sign.

On to the grid and the meta

We had to go to Hanscom AFB quite a few times, so a beantown expat gave me two pieces of advice, and I quote (in a Boston accent): "Rule numbuh 54: Nevah, evah, make eye contact. Rule numbuh 76: When in doubt, accelerate!"

[Bob cruise director]

OTC via email with more than a little assistance from Heidi @hcbirker . And I see that @KayW gets credit for solving twice.

[Bird Lives]

OTC via email with more than a little assistance from Heidi @hcbirker . And I see that @KayW gets credit for solving twice.

Sheesh, now I have to proofread my solver tally?
Kay really does merit a double, but in the interests of nit-picking precision, I have renumbered the list.

[Joe Ross]

My first Boston driving experience was driving an under-powered 18' U-Haul box truck towing a RAV4. When we popped out of a tunnel facing a centuries-old brick building I knew we'd taken a wrong turn. I also learned when we were on correct surface streets to give, TAKE, make your navigator responsible for bridge clearances, and apologize to nobody.

[KayW]

OTC via email with more than a little assistance from Heidi @hcbirker . And I see that @KayW gets credit for solving twice.

Sheesh, now I have to proofread my solver tally?
Kay really does merit a double, but in the interests of nit-picking precision, I have renumbered the list.

Haha what can I tell you? I'm from Chicago, it's a habit. In voting and everything else - early and often.

[rjy]

Late to it, catching up from out of town this weekend, and spent stupid time on MGWCC.

But loved this, Jay! Clever idea and construction, with a thematically apt answer to boot. Really well done!

[Anita]

Off the couch!

[Cinny]

Off the couch. Hung up in a rabbit hole, but then it finally occurred to me what I needed to do. Thanks, Jay!

[DCBilly]

very elegant from title to prompt to interior cluing to the gridditation to the rest of it. should be nominated for some nice prize or something....

[lbray53]

Off the couch! Struggled for two days on the last part but decided not to ask for nudges. I would call it more of a "there it is" than an aha moment, since there was some work for me to do when I finally decided to follow the correct path, which I had dismissed a couple of times. Worth the effort! Well done.

[CPJohnson]

Finally got it, but needed a hint from Jay. Thanks for the puzzle!

[Eric Porter]

OTC!

Nicely constructed. I may not have seen it without the nudges in the clues. I only started tonight; I remembered I didn't do it yesterday.

[Bird Lives]

Nine more solvers arrived yesterday.

38. Alex Sisti
39. DCBilly
40. Anita and Steve
41. Cindy Heisler
42. lbray53
43. CPJohnson
44. Eric Porter
45. Streroto
46. markhr

Maybe the nudges will helf a few others.

There are no themers as such.
The longest entries are eight letters, and there’s only two of them.
But there are several 7-letter entries

The clues for 50A and 32D.

Note that those nudges specify “words,” not “entries.”

Because those words are not entries, they do not have clues. Or do they?

The clues for those words — admittedly some of them are rather loose — are attached to other entries in the grid.

You know that drill — eight words ➜ eight clues ➜ eight entries ➜ eight letters. And Bob’s your uncle.

[hoover]

And Bob’s your uncle.

And he lives in Arkansas.