Re: Episode #242 Contest: "Follow the Directions"
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 3:43 pm
And there it is, starred clues!!! I almost blew the last MGWCC because I glanced over the entire clue for "Ghost ____ ...13 maned herein" Gosh, you'd think I'd be MUCH better at looking for subtle clues to the answer. I's still never have gotten it (KAS 4)BarbaraK wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 1:41 pmThat grind/coffee was a nasty little red herring. And I looked at shred/sheet too.DrTom wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 11:20 am Follow Directions.jpg
Boy, I could not have been further off if I tried! I did not interpret the directions to mean that “what you had to do to a part of a crossing entry” also meant that the part was an anagram as well. So, I had the SHRED GRIND DICE CHOP, and almost every one crossed an entry that had something I could do with the action term, so:
SHRED SHEET
GRIND COFFEE
DICE DILL
CHOP ??
Ah but it says the contest answer is an anagram of an entry in the grid, and to complete my ACTION – OBJECT foursome I see that the crossing entry contains an ANAGRAM of TOMATO. That was my answer at least. I should have caught on that it was WAY too simple to be the right mechanism.
I never looked for an anagram in the other crossing entries (my bad), but even if I had I am not sure I would have seen the last big clue, the TOR TIL LA because I didn’t see anything that would refer to that, it wasn’t an ACTION/OBJECT PAIR. Congratulations to all who got this.
The tortilla was the last piece I found. With the 4 ingredients, I thought of taco, and when I saw coat in the grid I felt pretty confident. But I held off submitting because those three starred clues at the bottom had to mean something. I had their answers written in a column, and they weren’t telling me anything that way. It wasn’t til I went back and highlighted them in the grid that I saw what they were hiding.