#685 - "Get Out Your Wite-Out"
- joequavis
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It saddens me to hear about the low ratings received on crosswordfiend for this puzzle. I thought it challenging, fair, and rewarding to solve - the precise attributes that bring me back each week. Bravo Matt!
- Joe Ross
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Any bashing must be discounted for whatever varied reasons people may have. This puzzle was excellent.
- Hector
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Been there, done that. Agree that the puzzle is excellent.
- ajk
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Popped over specifically to rate it highly. The complaints don't seem especially persuasive to me.
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- Duane Suarez
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Can someone please explain to me the purpose of the parenthetical numbers?
I did not get a good grasp of this even after reading the write-up.
Duane
I did not get a good grasp of this even after reading the write-up.
Duane
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I made this a lot harder on myself by not realizing until after I submitted that the four-letter replacement words for the typos were ALL IN THE SAME ROW AS THE THEMERS. I actually brute-force tried just about every four-letter grid word into every themer until they all made sense (and backed into a few using the numbers in parentheses). Great puzzle, and pretty elegant once you see it all.
- FrankieHeck
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Same here! I had already written out all the grid answers in columns by word length, and I plugged all those 4-letter words in every timeTMart wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:18 pm I made this a lot harder on myself by not realizing until after I submitted that the four-letter replacement words for the typos were ALL IN THE SAME ROW AS THE THEMERS. I actually brute-force tried just about every four-letter grid word into every themer until they all made sense (and backed into a few using the numbers in parentheses). Great puzzle, and pretty elegant once you see it all.
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I shot myself in the foot too :-) I'm not much of a pen-and-paper solver, and for metas I generally have an virtual notepad going with the theme entries and anything else that seems important. For this one I typed in all of the 4-letter words from the puzzle so that I could "easily" try out replacements, doh!TMart wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:18 pm I made this a lot harder on myself by not realizing until after I submitted that the four-letter replacement words for the typos were ALL IN THE SAME ROW AS THE THEMERS. I actually brute-force tried just about every four-letter grid word into every themer until they all made sense (and backed into a few using the numbers in parentheses). Great puzzle, and pretty elegant once you see it all.
- ajk
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They indicate the length of the grid entry that answers the new clue obtained by fixing the typo. So 16A gets a (4) because PARISLANES clues RUES, 20A gets a (5) because SIXANDSUCH clues EVENS, etc.Duane Suarez wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:02 pm Can someone please explain to me the purpose of the parenthetical numbers?
I did not get a good grasp of this even after reading the write-up.
Duane
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- Duane Suarez
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Thank you.ajk wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:38 pmThey indicate the length of the grid entry that answers the new clue obtained by fixing the typo. So 16A gets a (4) because PARISLANES clues RUES, 20A gets a (5) because SIXANDSUCH clues EVENS, etc.Duane Suarez wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:02 pm Can someone please explain to me the purpose of the parenthetical numbers?
I did not get a good grasp of this even after reading the write-up.
Duane
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I might have made it easier for myself... I never even noticed that there were parentheses!
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