New Beginnings

[Cap'n Rick]

I emailed the Capt and he said he had trouble with Crosshare and my answer was wrong.

Yeah, as I was reviewing the contest submissions on Crosshare, I accidentally clicked on Richard's incorrect entry and temporarily accepted it as another solution. I've just started using Crosshare (another "New Beginning" ), and it took me a little while to figure out how/where to un-accept his answer. I eventually fixed my error, but not before I confused Richard. Sorry about that - rookie mistake. If anyone else is confused and/or has any questions, please PM me.

Thank you

[Jeremy Smith]

Confirmed on Crosshare. Thank you, Rick!

[minimuggle]

I have been forklifted off the couch. Fantastic puzzle. Even with the nudges and the forklift help I was excited to solve it and have the "aha" moment. That must be the sign of a good meta.

[Cap'n Rick]

Good morning everybody! The following Muggles have also deserted their davenports:

Tom.Runner
Bird Lives
Dow Jones
Woozy
MamaE
Anita
CPJohnson
hcbirker
MarkWoychick
sharkicicles
Snood
Mindle
Richard
Minimuggle
Gmoney
Jeremy Smith

Thanks for solving!

[MaineMarge]

Stil stuck. Stuckity stuck.

Sending Cap’n Rick a pm to see if he can suggest a NEW plan of offence…

[HeadinHome]

Off the couch! Great construction and fun, straightforward mechanism. Struggled on the Crosshare grid because I kept putting zero in for “O” — prolly because I’m riding in the backseat of a car!

[Cap'n Rick]

Good morning everybody! A couple more Muggles have joined the solvers group:

Thurman8er
HeadinHome

(I'd really like to get @MaineMarge's cow over that gate though...)

[MaineMarge]

Still working with the new offence @Cap'n Rick

[Cinny]

Very late start on metas this week. Solved and confirmed on Crosshare. I did peek at the nudges, but shouldn't have needed them.

Great puzzle, Rick. Looking forward to your next one.

[Cap'n Rick]

We can add the following Muggles to the solver list:

cinny
MainMarge
hoover

Note: Final reveal will be tomorrow (Sunday).

[hoover]

I got nudged off the couch. Great first meta!

[Cap'n Rick]

Ahoy Muggle Mateys!

The two-word place name is "New World", and "shiver me timbers!", it looks like 59 of you got it right!

As the title suggests, the first step involved finding grid entries to which "NEW" can be pre-pended to form new words or phrases. The symmetrically-placed grid entries were:

AGE
CASTLE
EDITION
JERSEY
TON

The 2nd step involved finding alternate clues that could also apply to the "NEW" words.

NEW AGE - 66A Music genre - ROCK
NEWCASTLE - 68A English city - LEEDS
NEW EDITION - 4A Music group formed in the 70's - WINGS
NEW JERSEY - 16A Pennsylvania neighbor - OHIO
NEWTON - 70A Unit of force - DYNE

Arranging these alternate answers in grid order and selecting the first letters of each results in "WORLD". Adding a "NEW" beginning produces "NEW WORLD", a two-word place name that is the meta answer and a "new beginning" itself. Admittedly, this name hasn't been used much since the "Age of Discovery", but what do you expect from a salty old sea dog like Cap'n Rick?

Thanks everyone for solving my first meta! I'm looking forward to returning soon with my second!

Smooth sailing!
Cap'n Rick

[JeanneC]

Elegant!