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Ahoy, Muggles!

It's great to be back on the Sunday Summer Substitute (SSS) - a site where constructors can be bold and take chances - kinda like the Wright Brothers whose historic flight took place 120 years ago this fall. While nearly everybody has heard of the Wright Brothers and their aviation achievement, very few people are aware that they were arrested for trespassing at Kitty Hawk. Yep, and to make matters worse, the judge refused to grant them bail. He considered them a "flight risk". I'd like to thank @Abide, @Al Sisti, @boharr, @whimsy, @MarkWoychick, @Wendy Walker, and @Joe Ross for pretesting and technical help.

The meta answer is 7 letters long.

The Wright Stuff - Crosshare

The Wright Stuff - PUZ

The Wright Stuff - PDF

The Wright Stuff - Spreadsheet




Difficulty
This one is like a tranquil lake on which a floatplane just landed.

Nudges are here.
Solution is here.

Good luck!
Cap'n Rick

PS - I want to thank my good friend @MarkWoychick for agreeing to host last week's SSS on short notice. Thanks again, Mark! You certainly do have "the right stuff"!

Sssolved! Thanks, Rick. Entertaining as always.

Sssolved! Another fun solve from the Cap'n. Thanks!

SSSSuper great and SSSSolved

My wife says that I hang around with some strange people. And that was after I read her the Captain's lead in to the puzzle

SSSolved. Very clever. Up my alley.

How fun was that?! A favorite of mine!
Sssolved

Wow, the only two google hits on that "flight risk" joke are this very forum page and the /r/dadjokes subreddit from three years ago.
Thanks, Cap'n!

Sunday Nudges

One of the nice things about the SSS is the same-day availability of nudges. Here they are:

Boy, there sure are a lot of quotes in this puzzle!

And some of those quotes are even kinda funny.

Hey, wait a minute! This meta isn't about the Wright Brothers at all! It's about a comedian named "Steven Wright" from Boston.

Interestingly, Steven's quips are symmetrically positioned among the "Down" entries. That's very odd for a meta puzzle, isn't it?

And the first letters of those 7 theme entries follow a different direction as well.

Please let me know if you'd like more help.

SSSolved without nudges. Fun one Cap'n!

Sssolved! Thanks for the puzzle, Rick!

SSSolved SSSans SSSuggestions. Another fun one - thanks Cap'n!

Sssolved, though I needed nudge 3. Great puzzle!

Nudge 2. I just assume you collaborated with Mikey G. As Mikey G didn't have 7 letters I just gave up and rolled over and went back to sleep.

Sssolved. Lots of fun!

SSSolved!

My great-grandfather knew Titanic was doomed. He kept insisting, “She’ll sink! She’ll sink!” He wouldn’t shut up about it, and people got sick of hearing it. So they had him kicked out of the movie theater.

SSSnudged to a solution!

Solved with nudges because I was too lazy to try all the things I should have.
Fun one, thanks.

Haha, solved without nudges but I liked the nudges too

Got it, with a nudge from a friend. Thanks, Cap'n Rick!

SSSolved - still fun the second time around!