MEOW #127: PURE EVIL

[madhatter5]

Solution:

The shtick was, you had to get it wrong a bunch of times before you could get it right.

The first letters in the themers were MAN. So you submit MAN, I call you a sexist and give you a hint. Look to both sides.

You see the digram WO in each word on the same row of the themers. You submit WOMAN, I condemn your incessant discriminatory submissions and give you another hint. Look for the women.

You find five women's names, BETH RHONDA, URSA, TINA, EMILY. BRUTE. You submit that and get it wrong. You get a hint to look at the clues.

The clues first letters spell HUMAN. You submit that and get it wrong. I say look for a hint in the usual place.

You check the lower right across entry and see the poem "The Bells" by Edgar Allen Poe.

You find the lines

They are neither man nor woman
They are neither brute nor human
They are GHOULS


Sorry for the evility, and hope it was fun to see the punchline!
By the way MME solved it in one go. I dont know how.

[dsbened]

Good puzzle, but I'm still baffled by 19D: "E/h" and the answer is "Nu". Google doesn't explain it to me. Help anyone?

[benchen71]

Good puzzle, but I'm still baffled by 19D: "E/h" and the answer is "Nu". Google doesn't explain it to me. Help anyone?

It's the Planck relation, just rearranged algebraically (see here).

[madhatter5]

Thanks ben!

Fun fact, this is why we stop seeing things when we close our eyes.

[Laura M]

This was (evil) genius. I wasn't a good test subject because I don't like submitting too many times, so I gave up after a couple of tries when I couldn't get there on my own. But all the information was there, and anyway I could have swallowed my pride :-) Very impressive!