"Make Him From Them" - January 29, 2021
- Mister Squawk
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I satisfied myself thusly: Take the pronouns in grid order:
U
US
SHE
HE
HER
For each pronoun, take the first letter after the letter derived from the previous pronoun:
U
US
SHE
HE
HER
but it didn't make me happy...
U
US
SHE
HE
HER
For each pronoun, take the first letter after the letter derived from the previous pronoun:
U
US
SHE
HE
HER
but it didn't make me happy...
- Streroto
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I agree this makes it marginally more elegant, and was what I came up with in backsolve after landing on USHER in a moment of clarity while in the...er...well never mind. It does address the otherwise problematic ONE and ME in the themers as well as the already pointed out HE duplication.
It's still really cool.
Stay well all
It's still really cool.
Stay well all
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I had USHER as well, but didn’t get to enter because our internet was knocked out yesterday evening (a car skidded off the road and took out a utility pole, turns out), so I opened up a book instead.
- mheberlingx100
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I laid them out as such:
U
-uS
—sHe
—-hE
——heR
And voila, the answer was on the diagonal.
U
-uS
—sHe
—-hE
——heR
And voila, the answer was on the diagonal.
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- Janet P
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Guess I was on the correct shore after all. And I'm glad I submitted what felt like a BOWL GAMES answer!
I had the pronouns very early on and saw USHER but couldn't figure out the "click" others were mentioning. I thought maybe one of his songs was embedded in the puzzle or clues but I don't know any and was too busy to look up the discography.
I had the pronouns very early on and saw USHER but couldn't figure out the "click" others were mentioning. I thought maybe one of his songs was embedded in the puzzle or clues but I don't know any and was too busy to look up the discography.
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But if you eliminate the duplicate letters, you got one from many, or him from them. I might be alone in thinking this was sort of elegant.flyingMoose wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 2:18 amI think you are saying the same way I understood the mechanism. At each pronoun, you pick up the letter that follows the letter picked up at the previous pronoun.
U .. uS .. sHe .. hE .. heR
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Hey! That's my line!
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On Saturday night we watched the music videos for all the cited songs. Followed by the Google query "Why do rappers wear clocks around their necks?"
Good luck, fellow Muggles!
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Before solving the grid, based solely on the title, I thought that Sting was the answer because he went from The Police ("them") to a solo star ("him"). Only after filling in the grid did I know that wasn't going to "bee" the answer.
- hcbirker
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I did the same thing! I thought it was sort of like a word ladder.
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Uh-oh -- here they go -- only in French this time!
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While googling for the singer's name, I noticed that many of his titles contained U for you. (Perhaps they all do these days?)Janet P wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 7:38 am Guess I was on the correct shore after all. And I'm glad I submitted what I felt like was a BOWL GAMES answer!
I had the pronouns very early on and saw USHER but couldn't figure out the "click" others were mentioning. I thought maybe one of his songs was embedded in the puzzle or clues but I don't know any and was too busy to look up the discography.
So I took 17A for "confirmation!"
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I also took “U” as confirmation after googgling and finding that several of his song titles start with “U”.
But did anyone think that the crossword may have been constructed around USHER as a little pun or nod to the muggles cry “ASHORE!”? I definitely think so.
Say USHER. Then say ASHORE. They sound alike to my ear.
But did anyone think that the crossword may have been constructed around USHER as a little pun or nod to the muggles cry “ASHORE!”? I definitely think so.
Say USHER. Then say ASHORE. They sound alike to my ear.
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I listed the pronouns under each other with the beginning of of each under the same letters in the one prior and it yielded the same answer two ways.
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I used to have a student I taught braille. He was lived with his grandma because his mom had him at age 12 so grandma was raising both of them. Anyway, the family didn't have much, but the boy was a happy child because he had two things he loved: Usher and grandma's biscuits. And he talked about both every day!!!! Always with a huge smile on his face!!!! (I still haven't heard any of Ushers music though.)