![]() Also, with site ownership in limbo, pro tem, and the need for the new admin to evaluate and get up to speed, the connection problem continues. Unfortunately, a previous technical contractor hired to fix problems such as the current hasn't responded to requests. Details on all of this when the board can herd itself to meet and discuss the future, finally, once the legal and practical details are completed. We will also have a new volunteer and experienced administrator. This site is changing hands from Brian to a tiny non-profit, for entertainment corporation controlled by a volunteer six-member board of directors, which includes Brian MacDonald. Apologies for the delay.įour years & four months ago the amazingly generous founded Xword Muggles when the Wall Street Journal limited commenting on its sites to subscribers. Fate has had it that it hasn't been fixed, yet, but it will be soon. This issue has been known & ongoing for a few weeks. It doesn’t accept my user name for a few tries. This meta is unusual and very cleverly constructed, with two distinct steps, each of which is just as complex (and Aha!some) as many single-step constructions. There’s where I would have found OFD and WCS, the first and last Down entries – and found myself on the fast track. Were I more perspicacious when it counted, I could have saved time by looking in the Northwest and Southeast corners of the grid, where endogenous hints often (but not always) appear. However, while I vainly searched there, my brain (which often processes solves while I’m busy looking busy) nudged me with a tip about NDA and WCS and their connections to respective word pairs, then Whoosh! A quick scan of the clues yields nothing. We can’t make sense out of just the exchanged letters, so we have to search in the clues or the entries for help. Once we have seven pairs of modified words, it strikes us that we’re still at least one Aha! away from closing the deal. Thus enlightened, we have an easy task to find the opposites lurking there. This is a real eye-opener, given we have seven pairs of words and we’re trying to figure out what to do with them. We turn to the colloquial form, which is made proper by an implied phrase. So this faux flaw must be intentional – and a hint. Well, meta constructors have many wonderful gifts, but poor command of English isn’t one of them. ![]() Oh my, that isn’t proper English! We expect to see an adverb for Think as in, Think Differently. But do what? We’re told to Think Different. That’s unusual, but we’ve seen it before. First of all, it is an imperative sentence. Here is where the title comes in, and it is quite informative. So we know which seven entries to focus on. The clues are starred to identify the theme entries – very handy for me, but maybe unnecessary for more seasoned solvers. First, we have to figure out how to process the word pairs in the seven theme entries then we have to figure out how to form the answer from those modified word pairs.īut first things first. This meta offers two Aha!s for the price of one.
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