Can you storm the castle by getting across the MOAT? A weekly meta crossword constructed by forum member Ben (aka benchen71). These metas range from relatively easy to more challenging, depending on how many Australianisms he puts in them! Puzzles are posted in a new thread every Tuesday, with nudges appearing on Saturdays, and the solution coming out on Mondays. (At least, that's the plan. Given he lives in Australia, and they are so far ahead of the US time-zone-wise, things may get posted early!)
If you are still stuck, the following nudge will give most of the game away, so you've been warned!
5. The four WHO AM I? clues and the meta prompt (and all of my vague hint posts) all include two numbers in words (so ignore the year of birth).
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For those of you who like statistics, "Laughter Is The Best Drug" just made my Crosshare top 5 and pushed my total solves over 9000!
Check out "The MOAT Mini Pack of Marching Bands" here. US$5 gets you 7 Marching Bands which, hard enough on their own, now contain metas too. And once again there's a mega-meta!
Needed all five nudges and surviving multiple false steps before crossing the moat. In retrospect, the road map was there all along had I eyes to see...
Pair O Ducks
Mwoychick
lbray53
rjy
Laura M
edestlin
ReB
And we're now up to 23.
Check out "The MOAT Mini Pack of Marching Bands" here. US$5 gets you 7 Marching Bands which, hard enough on their own, now contain metas too. And once again there's a mega-meta!
Check out "The MOAT Mini Pack of Marching Bands" here. US$5 gets you 7 Marching Bands which, hard enough on their own, now contain metas too. And once again there's a mega-meta!
The solution to "Laughter Is The Best Drug" is as follows:
For those of you wondering if BANTER DEALER is an Australianism, no it isn't. It's a play off the phrase "Laughter is the best medicine" and the fact that "medicine" in the US is referred to as "drugs". With that in mind, since comedians are known for their banter, it's not too much of a stretch to refer to them as banter dealers.
Check out "The MOAT Mini Pack of Marching Bands" here. US$5 gets you 7 Marching Bands which, hard enough on their own, now contain metas too. And once again there's a mega-meta!
Even after I got nudged as to what to do, I interpreted WITS ENDS to mean that we had to use letters from each end of the names. SO, I was looking at BAMBER DEALER for the longest time. The fact that this still worked for DEALER saved me eventually, but for quite some time I took it to mean that I was using the correct mechanism. I finally realized that it had to be BANTER and then noticed that I could use DAVID PIERCE and AISHA TYLER a different (and correct) way.
My avatar proves that it is sometimes better to be lucky than good!
