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Re: #697 - "Further Diminishment"

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 9:01 pm
by Katiedid
Beam me up. Fun meta.

Re: #697 - "Further Diminishment"

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 9:23 pm
by ReB
Beam me up as well. Since it took me less than two minutes to solve after completing the grid, I expect a crowded ship again this week.

Re: #697 - "Further Diminishment"

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 9:54 pm
by architect
Easily beamed up but had IRL stuff to do, so didn’t get in until after 2 pm.

Re: #697 - "Further Diminishment"

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 11:25 pm
by DCBilly
Beamed up after Matt’s writeup of week 1 made me go hmm.

Re: #697 - "Further Diminishment"

Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2021 12:57 am
by MamaE
Tough grid, meta answer submitted and pending confirmation. This was a fun one!

Agree with all those bemoaning difficulty of MMMM!

ETA: confirmed!

Re: #697 - "Further Diminishment"

Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2021 10:43 am
by JennyByrd
Solved and submitted. Awaiting confirmation. Found the grid challenging, but the meta came quickly. Have a great weekend everyone.

Re: #697 - "Further Diminishment"

Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2021 11:10 am
by HeadinHome
Submitted. Off to vacation now !

Re: #697 - "Further Diminishment"

Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2021 5:10 pm
by mntlblok
So, I now know what a deal table is, learned a new synonym for stag party, that "clew" can be "clue", and that Neil Armstrong probably derived his famous quote from Flaubert and Doyle. Oh, and that some famous bank heists were just copycats. :-) (Read that Red-Headed story).

Re: #697 - "Further Diminishment"

Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2021 6:09 pm
by lbray53
Beamed up.

I LOVE 1A. I thought I was solving Pun of a Kind for a fleeting moment.

Re: #697 - "Further Diminishment"

Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2021 6:30 pm
by Thurman8er
Tougher grid. Easy meta.

Energize!

Re: #697 - "Further Diminishment"

Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2021 6:42 pm
by sheeparenotgreen
Yay. Submitted. This was fun. Back to being stuck on the MMMM :)

Re: #697 - "Further Diminishment"

Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2021 7:32 pm
by mntlblok
lbray53 wrote: Sat Oct 09, 2021 6:09 pm Beamed up.

I LOVE 1A. I thought I was solving Pun of a Kind for a fleeting moment.
As opposed to preposition abuse? :-)

Re: #697 - "Further Diminishment"

Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2021 9:41 pm
by MajordomoTom
that's a week 1 meta, not a week 2.

Re: #697 - "Further Diminishment"

Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2021 10:34 pm
by burghman
On the board - agree with others that the grid was tougher than the meta.

Re: #697 - "Further Diminishment"

Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2021 6:43 pm
by jhseeman
Beamed up.....waiting for confirmation but solid on the answer

confirmed.

Re: #697 - "Further Diminishment"

Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2021 9:06 pm
by sharkicicles
Finally got back home and around to this. Not on the board yet but 100% sure.

Re: #697 - "Further Diminishment"

Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2021 10:25 pm
by rexthree
beamed up.

Re: #697 - "Further Diminishment"

Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2021 9:52 am
by bhamren
DCBilly wrote: Fri Oct 08, 2021 11:25 pm Beamed up after Matt’s writeup of week 1 made me go hmm.
I read this and went back and read the writeup and it did help.

I did the puzzle right away on Friday, but I didn't try for the meta until this morning - I guess I am not a first page type of guy. I must not have looked for the meta on Friday because now it jumped out at me instantly (with the help of reading the week 1 writeup to point me in a general direction).

Re: #697 - "Further Diminishment"

Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2021 4:00 pm
by hcbirker
I totally crashed and burned on this one. I looked up the prefix for trillion and it gave me tera-, not pico-. Grrr! Oh well.

Re: #697 - "Further Diminishment"

Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2021 6:03 pm
by MajordomoTom
Atto way to go.