1952 Meta
by Mark Halpin
ANSWER: JOE'S NAMED VP
The answers from this round are:
Puzzle | Witch | Answer |
---|---|---|
Casting Spells | Baba Yaga | JOCK |
Discword | Esme Weatherwax | FINANCE |
For Whom the Bella Toils | Bellatrix Lestrange | VIAL |
100% Reliable | Agnes Nutter | SHADING |
Temptations | Jadis, the White Witch of Narnia | DOGES |
Absolute Power | Willow Rosenberg | CEO |
Disappearing Act | Endora | MODE |
Stick Man | the Blair Witch | MISTED |
Summonings | Paige Halliwell | END UP |
Puritan Test | Wilhelmina W. Witchiepoo | BOSOM |
Shapeshifting | Serafina Pekkala | MINK |
A witch hunt in 1952, in a hunt devoted to American history and the flavor text references (including "scary note" in the round page and "no relation to those Rosenbergs" in Willow's puzzle) might suggest the Red Scare.
Each answer in this round "hides" a Red by replacing it with a single letter (a "seemingly innocent character concealing its true colors"). Ordering letters chronologically by the first appearances of the fictional witches gives the answer JOE'S NAMED VP.
Witch | Date / origin | Answer | Letter |
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Baba Yaga | ca. 1600, Russian folk tales | REDOCK | J |
Jadis, the White Witch of Narnia | 1950, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe | DREDGES | O |
Endora | 1964, "Bewitched" | MODRED | E |
Wilhelmina W. Witchiepoo | 1969, H. R. Pufnstuf | BOREDOM | S |
Esme Weatherwax | 1987, Equal Rites | FIRE DANCE | N |
Agnes Nutter | 1990, Good Omens | SHREDDING | A |
Serafina Pekkala | 1995, Northern Lights/The Golden Compass | RED INK | M |
Willow Rosenberg | 1997, Buffy the Vampire Slayer | CREDO | E |
the Blair Witch | 1999, The Blair Witch Project | MISTER ED | D |
Bellatrix Lestrange | 2000, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | REDIAL | V |
Paige Halliwell | 2001, Charmed (Season 4) | ENDURED | P |
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