More for the solver's column --
lbray53
Berto
JM
MEOW #146 I'll Have What She's Halving
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whimsy
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markhr
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Seven nudges and I'm still lost. Just not my week for a MEOW.
This is tougher than a Gaffney week 3.
This is tougher than a Gaffney week 3.
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woozy
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Sigh....
Yes I had figured all those nudges on my own. But I'm definitely missing the spark to make anything of it.
Yes I had figured all those nudges on my own. But I'm definitely missing the spark to make anything of it.
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.
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MaineMarge
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@whimsy, how about a more blatant nudge for those of us not even halfway there??
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Joe Ross
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whimsy
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Sorry for some inattention to my duties -- fell while on my bike the other day and got a hairline fracture (right forearm 
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The difficulty level is turning out to be as I suspected; the testing situation was a microcosm of what's actually happening.
Thanks for sticking with this!
)The difficulty level is turning out to be as I suspected; the testing situation was a microcosm of what's actually happening.
Thanks for sticking with this!
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markhr
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whimsy
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Several more solvers --
hoover
Tom Wilson
DCBilly
woozy
Pair O Ducks (schmidzy)
markhr
Carolyn
CPJohnson (Cynthia)
Thanks for puzzling, everyone.
hoover
Tom Wilson
DCBilly
woozy
Pair O Ducks (schmidzy)
markhr
Carolyn
CPJohnson (Cynthia)
Thanks for puzzling, everyone.
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Ergcat
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MatthewL
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Cat is finally free. Giving me quite the evil eye too. Thanks for the puzzle!
Matthew
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whimsy
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But wait! There's more!
Rufus T Firefly (aka Tom Shea, aka Groucho)
MarkWoychick
Ergcat
MatthewL
SeamusOL
Rufus T Firefly (aka Tom Shea, aka Groucho)
MarkWoychick
Ergcat
MatthewL
SeamusOL
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hcbirker
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MikeyG
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Still chewing on this one - nothing yet! Will keep at it!
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whimsy
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A few more cat de-baggers --
edestlin
heidi
DIS
Jaclyn
Reveal tomorrow around noon.
edestlin
heidi
DIS
Jaclyn
Reveal tomorrow around noon.
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MikeyG
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Definitely a bit SAD, but some chewing in the form of all the first nudges and the first nudge of the second set helped, haha.
Heal up, @whimsy!
Heal up, @whimsy!
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whimsy
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whimsy
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The reveal -- with graphics courtesy of @KayW!
The answer is ALFRESCO.
Yes, I was sneaky in that the SHES were all vertically oriented. (A bit of a hint to this could be found in the center entry across clue: "...boosted upward more vertically.") To me that gave a better picture of them "slicing" down through the grid to cut through the horizontal words, and to "half" exactly one of them in each of the four instances. Three of the four cases were simple enough with only one letter on either side of whichever letter in SHES did the halving. Since the fourth was the outlier, I used the ONLY TWO double clue/entry, to let solvers know they only needed the letters to the immediate left and right of the particular letter. Hopefully, getting the last six letters of the phrase (FRESCO), would help to see the first two (AL).
Because what else says Al Fresco like "Bella Notte?"
And it looks like Tramp is about to halve what She's having.
Thank you all for playing!
The answer is ALFRESCO.
Yes, I was sneaky in that the SHES were all vertically oriented. (A bit of a hint to this could be found in the center entry across clue: "...boosted upward more vertically.") To me that gave a better picture of them "slicing" down through the grid to cut through the horizontal words, and to "half" exactly one of them in each of the four instances. Three of the four cases were simple enough with only one letter on either side of whichever letter in SHES did the halving. Since the fourth was the outlier, I used the ONLY TWO double clue/entry, to let solvers know they only needed the letters to the immediate left and right of the particular letter. Hopefully, getting the last six letters of the phrase (FRESCO), would help to see the first two (AL).
And it looks like Tramp is about to halve what She's having.
Thank you all for playing!
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DrTom
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A lovely, and of course quite "Whimsical" meta. The MEOW is so lucky that it has fiends with such talents, who can jump in at a moment's notice if there is a hole in the schedule (even if dogs were used in the reveal).
Thanks for a great puzzle and reminders of two great movies!
T
Thanks for a great puzzle and reminders of two great movies!
T
NUDGES!I am always willing to give nudges where needed; metas should be about fun, not frustration. Send me what you have done so far because often you are closer than you think!