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This week's puzzle: Hit and Sunk
Complexity Scale™ rating of 4 / 10.

The answer to this week's meta is a 6-letter word.
(Most of you won't need Google at all for this).

Crosshare link: https://crosshare.org/crosswords/AYTQw7A4QGwronY3MwtT

Dino me!

Solved and submitted.

Solved that T-Rex and waiting for confirmation. Very nice construction!

Dino me!

Submitted!

Solved?

EDIT: I have not heard back from Will yet, BUT I figured out something I was doing wrong that made the mechanism seem clunky. Now everything seems copacetic. I have gone from 75% sure to 95% sure.

So DINO ME. (Unless you hear otherwise.)

lbray53 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 13, 2021 10:55 am EDIT: I have not heard back from Will yet,....

Don't forget you can enter via CROSSHARE and get instant feedback if your submission was correct or not.
(The leaderboard still takes time to update - both on CROSSHARE and Will's - but at least you don't have to wait for that confirmation.)

RPardoe wrote: ↑Sun Jun 13, 2021 11:07 am

lbray53 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 13, 2021 10:55 am EDIT: I have not heard back from Will yet,....

Don't forget you can enter via CROSSHARE and get instant feedback if your submission was correct or not.
(The leaderboard still takes time to update - both on CROSSHARE and Will's - but at least you don't have to wait for that confirmation.)

Thanks for the tip. I tried that before and thought that I had to solve online to submit on CROSSHARE. I finally read the directions, which I seem try to avoid, even at my advanced age. Old dog problem I guess!

Oh by the way. DINO ME!

20210613 PB — hashbrown — Hit and Sunk — Excel form

20210613 PB — hashbrown — Hit and Sunk — PDF from PUZ (1 page)

I have yet to be dinoed but just posting in hopes something will get triggered. On to something but nothing of merit yet!

Super fun! 35D is brilliant!

So that's two problems I had solving on iPad:
a) only had 2/3 of the answer right
b) totally missed the full reading of 35-D
Superb puzzle!

Dino me!

Loved it!

Dino me.

Abide wrote: ↑Sun Jun 13, 2021 12:17 pm b) totally missed the full reading of 35-D

I was helped as I am reading McWhorter's Nine Nasty Words at the moment and just read the section which explores that exact use and how it came to be. A very interesting book on how such words tend to be used and how such uses change over time.

A wonderful meta.

RPardoe wrote: ↑Sun Jun 13, 2021 12:35 pm

Abide wrote: ↑Sun Jun 13, 2021 12:17 pm b) totally missed the full reading of 35-D

I was helped as I am reading McWhorter's Nine Nasty Words at the moment and just read the section which explores that exact use and how it came to be. A very interesting book on how such words tend to be used and how such uses change over time.

Are you enjoying the book? I hope to read it soon - it's on my list...
I recently read McWhorter's 'Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English'. I enjoyed it - amongst many other things he expounds on a hypothesis (not quite accepted) that shows a possible impact that a Semitic language had on early Germanic. Interesting stuff. I also enjoy his podcast 'Lexicon Valley'.

@Schmeel - Very much so. Have enjoyed quite a bit of McWhorter's essays and writings on numerous topics. I got the book recently and it jumped the reading queue as it seems like a short, quick read.

This book does remind me of Mohr's Holy Sh*t: A brief history of swearing but that book has a more historical view - looking at profanity historically in many languages while McWhorter focuses on English. Both do (at a high level) confirm the general trend that profanity generally swings from religion to bodily function to groups of people over time.

Happy to take this conversation to PM or other part of the forum rather than distract from Will's puzzle.

With help, I have achieved dino me status. Very clever puzzle.