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"Picture Perfect" - November 2020

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2020 1:35 pm
by RPardoe
The meta for this puzzle is an album released in 2005.

Re: "Picture Perfect" - November 2020

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2020 1:39 pm
by Hector
Way to go RPardoe!

Re: "Picture Perfect" - November 2020

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2020 1:42 pm
by RPardoe
Was surprised and shocked! Nice going Hector on the second spot. Of course, now I am posting #3, so we can't have the muggles comments in solve order now.

Re: "Picture Perfect" - November 2020

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2020 3:42 pm
by Meg
I don’t always do the MMMM. Perhaps I shouldn’t have submitted since I had a big nudge. However, I’m not in the running for anything as I’ve only done a few of these.

Re: "Picture Perfect" - November 2020

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2020 3:51 pm
by RPardoe
Within a few minutes after submission. And I see your name on the leaderboard, so confirmed.

Re: "Picture Perfect" - November 2020

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2020 3:54 pm
by oldjudge
What is the beam me up equivalent for the music metas? I’m in Margaritaville looking for my lost shaker of salt. BTW, strong muggle showing today!

Re: "Picture Perfect" - November 2020

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2020 7:47 pm
by Laura M
Amazing puzzle! Took me all day but I still got in at #11.

Also, I'm top of the contest leaderboard until damefox and LL solve this one :-)

Re: "Picture Perfect" - November 2020

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2020 8:23 am
by Abide
The penny has not dropped in my jukebox yet....

Re: "Picture Perfect" - November 2020

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2020 10:37 am
by damefox
Solved! Not my favorite of the year, but pretty cool once you find the mechanism.

Re: "Picture Perfect" - November 2020

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2020 11:08 am
by TMart
On the board. That was different.

Re: "Picture Perfect" - November 2020

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2020 4:57 pm
by Eric Porter
I've got the grid... mostly. I'm not quite sure what Pete's doing here.

Re: "Picture Perfect" - November 2020

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2020 6:11 pm
by Tina
**Please ignore this post.** Just posting here hoping the crossword gods will bless me with post-inspiration. On this and the Fireball. **Sorry to bother you.**

Re: "Picture Perfect" - November 2020

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 8:10 am
by BethA
Worked diligently for a few hours Tuesday afternoon, on what I was sure was the thing to do! Of all the nerve!! Turns out it didn’t lead anywhere!

Back to 34A Stares stupidly

But will set aside for the WSJ meta at 4:00.

Re: "Picture Perfect" - November 2020

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 9:31 am
by MikeM000
oldjudge wrote: Tue Nov 03, 2020 3:54 pm What is the beam me up equivalent for the music metas? I’m in Margaritaville looking for my lost shaker of salt. BTW, strong muggle showing today!
It may have been inadvertent, but this seems like a pretty good one to me....
Abide wrote: Wed Nov 04, 2020 8:23 am The penny has not dropped in my jukebox yet....

Re: "Picture Perfect" - November 2020

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 9:35 am
by ky-mike
BethA wrote: Thu Nov 05, 2020 8:10 am Worked diligently for a few hours Tuesday afternoon, on what I was sure was the thing to do! Of all the nerve!! Turns out it didn’t lead anywhere!

Back to 34A Stares stupidly

But will set aside for the WSJ meta at 4:00.
Only 24 correct entries as of Thursday AM. Certainly is playing hard to get. I thought that I had a path, but no picture is emerging for me, either.

Re: "Picture Perfect" - November 2020

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 10:20 am
by Cindy
This was hard and not my kind of meta. I had far too much help to submit.

Re: "Picture Perfect" - November 2020

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 3:44 pm
by ChrisKochmanski
Found it!

My lost shaker of salt, that is.

Though I'm feeling like the previous poster. I submitted ... but I got a VERY big nudge from another previous poster. If I end up being high on the leaderboard (not likely), I'll ask Pete to deny me the correct answer on this one.

Re: "Picture Perfect" - November 2020

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2020 5:07 pm
by BarbaraK
This feels like one of those magic eye pictures - where I can kind of sense something there but can't bring it into focus.

Re: "Picture Perfect" - November 2020

Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 1:19 pm
by stmv
Whew, I'm on the board, finally. I had a flash of inspiration last night while brushing my teeth, tried it out, and to my amazement it worked. This one required a good amount of work.

Re: "Picture Perfect" - November 2020

Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 2:36 pm
by photosurrealism
I think my visual impairment is working against me. I'm not sure I'm on the right track at all.