A weekly meta crossword created by members of the forum. Difficulty levels will vary. Hints are usually available starting Wednesday, and solutions are posted on Sunday.
I'm very pleased to be part of another meta collaboration today - this time with Chris Barbee (@cbarbee002). Chris came up with the idea for the mechanism, and I helped construct the grid. He's traveling this week, so I'll be handling the hosting duties. I hope you have as much fun solving this meta as I did co-creating it. We'd like to thank @Abide, @Al Sisti, @boharr, @whimsy, @MarkWoychick, and @Joe Ross for pretesting and technical help.
The answer to this meta is a seven-letter word starting with N.
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Very good stuff, thanks folks. A couple of brief diversions before spotting the true path, and then a brief interlude at the very end before it clicked.
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Filled the grid shortly after it posted at midnight intent on a speedy solve, but I (didn't) See It until just now. Good challenge, nice aha! Thanks, fellas!
If you want help with a meta, feel free to PM me. The more specific you are about what you have and what you want, the more likely I can help without spoiling.
(And if I help you win a mug, I’ll be especially delighted.)
OTC - while I am listed as a test solver, I didn't actually solve it until now. Fun puzzle, thanks, Rick and Chris!
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We're off to an awesome start with 30 solvers (including testers) "seeing it":
Abide (TS)
Al Sisti (TS)
boharr (TS)
whimsy (TS)
Hector
Schmeel
benchen71
Qmark
HeadinHome
ajk
Meg
Rufus T Firefly
DIS
markhr
Berto
MatthewL
rjy
BarbaraK
Dave C
hcbirker
Cindy Weatherman
Laura M
Wendy Walker
Gutman
Jeremy Smith
Philip Chow
Chris Kochmanski
MarkWoychick (late TS)
DJB
Tyrpmom
I'm kind of jealous of people who can walk away from something and come back afresh and then just see it.
Unless I obsess on something every second I was away (which isn't good for me) coming back to something is like seeing something entirely unfamiliar-- a grid precompleted by someone else.
Funny story. I was all set to enter Par for the course for the CrossHare midi contest for April but I mistakenly thought midi meant 7x 7 and not 11 x 11. Oops. Well.... Here's a complex but **small** meta on the subject of golf.
