Though, admittedly, I required even more than Al’s two nudges so far. (Thanks, you-know-who!)
I must say, the metas aren’t coming easily for me recently. Even some of the clues are confounding me. For example, I’m still stuck on “The Dinah Shore Sho_”.
Re: "Leap of Faith"
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2021 5:04 pm
by Bird Lives
The NYC subway has a Franklin St. station in lower Manhattan and a Franklin Ave. station in Brooklyn. After her death, they added to the signage in both. [This is not a nudge. These subway trains will not take you to the meta answer.]
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Re: "Leap of Faith"
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2021 5:07 pm
by Al Sisti
Bird Lives wrote: ↑Tue Oct 05, 2021 5:04 pm
The NYC subway has a Franklin St. station in lower Manhattan and a Franklin Ave. station in Brooklyn. After her death, they added to the signage in both. [This is not a nudge. These subway trains will not take you to the meta answer.]
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Aretha.jpg
Very cool!
Re: "Leap of Faith"
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2021 5:10 pm
by Bird Lives
Neat puzzle. Perfectly logical and with minimal crosswordese in the grid (not that I'd ever heard of the great Nikolai Volkoff or any of his avatars. I'm kicking myself for needing a shove.
Re: "Leap of Faith"
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2021 5:22 pm
by Dplass
Bird Lives wrote: ↑Tue Oct 05, 2021 5:10 pm
Neat puzzle. Perfectly logical and with minimal crosswordese in the grid (not that I'd ever heard of the great Nikolai Volkoff or any of his avatars. I'm kicking myself for needing a shove.
Annoyingly, I believe I know exactly WHAT the mechanism is, I just don't know WHERE it is. (Don't get me started on WHY it is...)
Re: "Leap of Faith"
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2021 6:37 pm
by hoover
What the what? I've fallen so far that I don't even understand the nudges anymore.
Re: "Leap of Faith"
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2021 9:28 pm
by MaineMarge
Not happening, and I’m having a bad reaction to all you leaping lords and ladies
Keep those nudges coming Al.
Re: "Leap of Faith"
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2021 9:07 am
by Al Sisti
Wednesday morning leaderboard additions:
9 boharr
10 RPardoe
11 Darth
12 Meg
13 ChrisKochmanski
14 Bird Lives
15 Tom Shea
... with a few more getting very close to the solution. And here's a Wednesday nudge:
The rows you are interested in are row 3, 6, 8, 10 and 13.
Re: "Leap of Faith"
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2021 9:22 am
by Meg
Is it just me, or did several of the clues seem familiar? Like I’d seen them before in a Sisti puzzle. Not complaining. Just wondering if I’m hallucinating.
Re: "Leap of Faith"
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2021 10:57 am
by Al Sisti
Meg wrote: ↑Wed Oct 06, 2021 9:22 am
Is it just me, or did several of the clues seem familiar? Like I’d seen them before in a Sisti puzzle. Not complaining. Just wondering if I’m hallucinating.
You're just sore because there's finally a puzzle without your name in it! Next time, I promise...right next to "that city in Central New York."
Re: "Leap of Faith"
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2021 11:05 am
by Al Sisti
Pete Muller and I seem to be having a battle for "who can get the lowest number of solvers" this week. Another spoiler? Okay... (but these are getting tougher to do without giving away the farm).
When you see it, you'll have five theme entries -- one being a two word phrase.
What do they all have in common? (use OneLook with the * wildcard, if it helps)
Meg wrote: ↑Wed Oct 06, 2021 9:22 am
Is it just me, or did several of the clues seem familiar? Like I’d seen them before in a Sisti puzzle. Not complaining. Just wondering if I’m hallucinating.
You're just sore because there's finally a puzzle without your name in it! Next time, I promise...right next to "that city in Central New York."
I'm thinking maybe it's the distinctive cluing style?
I'm picturing years from now when linguistic researchers argue whether this is an original Sisti or perhaps constructed by Edward deVere?
Meg wrote: ↑Wed Oct 06, 2021 9:22 am
Is it just me, or did several of the clues seem familiar? Like I’d seen them before in a Sisti puzzle. Not complaining. Just wondering if I’m hallucinating.
You're just sore because there's finally a puzzle without your name in it! Next time, I promise...right next to "that city in Central New York."
Whimsy told me to tell you that I AM in a puzzle after all and to post a picture of Edith Ann. And that's the truth.
Meg wrote: ↑Wed Oct 06, 2021 9:22 am
Is it just me, or did several of the clues seem familiar? Like I’d seen them before in a Sisti puzzle. Not complaining. Just wondering if I’m hallucinating.
You're just sore because there's finally a puzzle without your name in it! Next time, I promise...right next to "that city in Central New York."
Whimsy told me to tell you that I AM in a puzzle after all and to post a picture of Edith Ann. And that's the truth.
Meg wrote: ↑Wed Oct 06, 2021 9:22 am
Is it just me, or did several of the clues seem familiar? Like I’d seen them before in a Sisti puzzle. Not complaining. Just wondering if I’m hallucinating.
You're just sore because there's finally a puzzle without your name in it! Next time, I promise...right next to "that city in Central New York."
I'm thinking maybe it's the distinctive cluing style?
I'm picturing years from now when linguistic researchers argue whether this is an original Sisti or perhaps constructed by Edward deVere?
Argh! Not another CamelCase name!
Re: "Leap of Faith"
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2021 11:34 am
by lbray53
Off the couch! Solved without asking anyone for a nudge!
I guess there were a few spoilers though.
It took me awhile to figure out 72A, even after I had the answer to the meta. NOW I get it.
Re: "Leap of Faith"
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2021 11:40 am
by Al Sisti
First of all, congrats to those of you who have solved it. For those of you who haven't, I know you will. Now, another challenge for those who have solved it and thought they were done: I've also put in a "hidden aha" within the clues.. and no-one has found that trick yet. All I can say is that I used a similar mechanism to that used in the solve, and that it's consistent with the title and -- to some extent -- the answer.
Re: "Leap of Faith"
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2021 12:31 pm
by woozy
Every single nudge implies that I always had the exact idea of the mechanism all along from the very beginning... except there is *nothing* there. This is like the number between 3 and 5 all over again. Do I not speak english or something?
Re: "Leap of Faith"
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2021 2:50 pm
by Dplass
woozy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 06, 2021 12:31 pm
Every single nudge implies that I always had the exact idea of the mechanism all along from the very beginning... except there is *nothing* there. This is like the number between 3 and 5 all over again. Do I not speak english or something?
Same and same.
Re: "Leap of Faith"
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2021 3:36 pm
by boharr
Al Sisti wrote: ↑Wed Oct 06, 2021 11:40 am
First of all, congrats to those of you who have solved it. For those of you who haven't, I know you will. Now, another challenge for those who have solved it and thought they were done: I've also put in a "hidden aha" within the clues.. and no-one has found that trick yet. All I can say is that I used a similar mechanism to that used in the solve, and that it's consistent with the title and -- to some extent -- the answer.
