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"Hop on Pop and . . . ."
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 12:49 pm
by cbarbee002
Morning . . . uh, Afternoon Muggles! As a neophyte to the process of creating / posting a puzzle, it took me a bit to figure out how to do so (with a lot of BMac's hand-holding), so apologies for the delay. As this puzzle is one of my first efforts, please bear with its shortcomings . . . .
Also, it's somewhat daunting to follow Bird Lives and Al Sisti, but I'm thinking this puzzle at least will give you respite from the more difficult ones, as I project it to be ~1.5-ish in difficulty.
This week's puzzle is called "Hop on Pop and . . . .", which references of course a favorite book among those born in 2017 and later. Please PM me with your solutions by 4 p.m. on Sunday and as usual I'll post a leaderboard during the week a few times. I also will provide a nudge on Wednesday (which may not be needed).
Hop on Pop and.puz
Hop on Pop and.pdf
The solution to this meta is something you will need to do in order to solve. Enjoy!
Re: Hop on Pop and . . . .
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 2:24 pm
by Joe Ross
Re: Hop on Pop and . . . .
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 3:35 pm
by Abide
Started on this one 30 minutes ago. Needed some Googling for bottom center. Interestingly, when I went to Youtube to verify 44-A pronunciation, a 43-D ad popped up (which I had just Googled).
Some clever cluing here, but seems tougher than a Week 1.5. Maybe chewing on a cigar will help..
Re: Hop on Pop and . . . .
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 3:41 pm
by Tom Wilson
Agreed. I think the constructor sells himself short on the difficulty factor!
Re: Hop on Pop and . . . .
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 3:58 pm
by RPardoe
Answer submitted - awaiting confirmation.
Edit - and confirmed.
Re: Hop on Pop and . . . .
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 4:00 pm
by Wendy Walker
Just like Peter, I had to Google to get some of the answers bottom-center but in the process found a great-looking recipe for 51D. I 18A'd at your clue for 36A. Time to work on the meta before yoga class.
Re: Hop on Pop and . . . .
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 4:30 pm
by Dannyvee
Confirmed correct!
Re: Hop on Pop and . . . .
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 4:50 pm
by oldjudge
Answer submitted
Re: "Hop on Pop and . . . ."
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 4:56 pm
by Meg
I’ve submitted. Waiting for confirmation.
And we have confirmation.🛋
Re: "Hop on Pop and . . . ."
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 4:57 pm
by Hector
Same. Fun mechanism; thanks, Chris!
Re: "Hop on Pop and . . . ."
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 7:38 pm
by boharr
Off the couch!
Confirmed and thanks again for the clever puzzle.
Re: "Hop on Pop and . . . ."
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 8:51 pm
by Cindy
Solved
Re: "Hop on Pop and . . . ."
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:28 pm
by LesY
Solved it. Impressive first effort, Chris!
Re: "Hop on Pop and . . . ."
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2021 11:07 am
by cbarbee002
You may have noticed that my clueing on 56A acknowledges a missing letter "at the end" - - meant to say in the middle. Apologies - - no impact on the meta.
Re: "Hop on Pop and . . . ."
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2021 11:09 am
by cbarbee002
Leaderboard as of this morning:
RPardoe
Dannyvee
Meg
Hector
oldjudge
Cindy
boharr
LesY
Re: "Hop on Pop and . . . ."
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2021 12:58 pm
by Dplass
Confirmed dechesterified, after a tiny nudge. Thanks for the free puzzle!
Re: "Hop on Pop and . . . ."
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2021 7:55 pm
by bhamren
Can someone throw me a nudge on 53D. I must have most of the bottom right corner wrong since I only have the last letter of 53D and the others look questionable since filling anything in these 3 spaces will not make words.
Thanks.
Edit - thanks for the nudges. I saw that I had 54D wrong also.
Re: "Hop on Pop and . . . ."
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2021 9:55 pm
by Dow Jones
Confirmed. Off the couch. There's alot of talent within this group !
Re: "Hop on Pop and . . . ."
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2021 10:41 pm
by dudeski
Nice puzzle. Nudge-aided.
Re: "Hop on Pop and . . . ."
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 8:02 am
by Bird Lives
Off the couch. The idea of the mechanism occurred to me but just for a moment. It's one I've seen in cryptics every so often,but then I thought: nah, Chris doesn't seem like a cryptics kind of guy. But last night's Zoom confirmed the idea I had discarded. Thanks, Chris.
