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"Back Pocket"
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 7:34 am
by Abide
Good morning everyone! As we wind down the dog days of summer, here's a Week 2 meta to beat the heat. The grid may be tougher than the meta.
The meta answer is a summer rerun. For extra credit, find the two additional words that would make a good fifth theme entry.
Edit: Revised instructions to limit the range of “extra credit answers”
Submit answer by PM or on Crosshare by Saturday at 10pm EST.
Randomly drawn winner will receive a Biloxi Christmas ornament.
Dr. Pepper nudges released on Wednesday.
Hope to see you off the couch soon!
Back Pocket PUZ
Back Pocket PDF
Crosshare Link
Back Pocket spreadsheet
Re: "Back Pocket"
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 8:03 am
by Cindy
Solved
Re: "Back Pocket"
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 8:04 am
by edestlin
Off the couch. Fun!
Re: "Back Pocket"
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 8:21 am
by boharr
Couch vacated. Fun puzzle. Thanks, Peter.
Re: "Back Pocket"
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 8:33 am
by BarbaraK
Got the answer, but drawing a blank on the extra credit
Re: "Back Pocket"
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 9:12 am
by jhseeman
Launched off the couch. Have Answer, waiting for verification of the extra theme entry.
Nice Puzzle, Pete. Thanks.
Now back to staring into the rabbit hole that is Mikey's puzzle.
Re: "Back Pocket"
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 9:24 am
by Darth
Off the... Who? Not me! I'm no couch potato!
Fun puzzle, Peter. Thanks.
Re: "Back Pocket"
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 9:31 am
by Meg
OTC
Thanks, Peter.
Re: "Back Pocket"
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 9:40 am
by Schmeel
Off the couch!
Re: "Back Pocket"
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 10:02 am
by Cinny
Off the couch! Thanks, Peter.
Re: "Back Pocket"
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 10:31 am
by oldjudge
🛋.Another great puzzle by Peter!
Re: "Back Pocket"
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 10:39 am
by ajk
Good stuff, though indeed the grid required some google-checking of guesses in a couple spots. Worst was 8D, where both versions of the clue might as well have been in Greek for me and a typo I had in 6A made it very hard to infer that crossing at first. So that one's on me.
Meta was simple but fun, thanks. Extra credit earned as well. Which reminds me that school starts next week. Sigh.
Re: "Back Pocket"
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 10:43 am
by KayW
Fun one! Extra credit submitted...
EDIT: So apparently I found EXTRA extra credit (it was a bit of a stretch). Extra credit re-submitted...
Re: "Back Pocket"
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 11:16 am
by rjy
Got it! Now for the extra credit, I have an answer, but we'll see...
Re: "Back Pocket"
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 11:41 am
by hoover
Off the couch and into the office. Happy Monday, everyone!
Re: "Back Pocket"
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 12:26 pm
by woozy
Not only do I not get the meta, I don't get the prompt....
Re: "Back Pocket"
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 12:52 pm
by Dplass
woozy wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 12:26 pm
Not only do I not get the meta, I don't get the prompt....
Same. Also, double fail on 8D...I'm a gen xer who never played the game or saw the movie...
Re: "Back Pocket"
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 1:14 pm
by Ergcat
woozy wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 12:26 pm
Not only do I not get the meta, I don't get the prompt....
Make that 3 of us! Not sure what to do with the prompt and finding the mechanism.
Re: "Back Pocket"
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 1:16 pm
by Ergcat
Ergcat wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 1:14 pm
woozy wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 12:26 pm
Not only do I not get the meta, I don't get the prompt....
Make that 3 of us! Not sure what to do with the prompt and finding the mechanism.
On the plus side loved seeing 29d! Monteverde is my maiden name and Claudio was a distant relative.
Re: "Back Pocket"
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 1:19 pm
by rjy
KayW wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 10:43 am
Fun one! Extra credit submitted...
EDIT: So apparently I found EXTRA extra credit (it was a bit of a stretch). Extra credit re-submitted...
We may be of like mind on this. I got the correct - yet incorrect - extra credit answer, but settled for resubmitting with the incorrect - yet correct - extra credit answer. All in good fun...
Fun one! Extra credit submitted...