I'm out of order? You're out of order! This whole [#four-letter word]#] puzzle is out of ... alignment

[woozy]

So... I guess I'll just announce I toyed and knocked out a new one. Once you knock it in order this impenetrable thing might fall into place.

Good luck and I wish you.... a 17-letter phrase that is the answer to the meta.

Order? I'm out of order? You're out of order! This whole [#four-letter word#] puzzle is out of ..... alignment

[schmidzy]

Just noticed there's a thread for this one — this puzzle was super clever, thanks woozy!

Leaderboard's a little lonely right now... still time to get that "page one" status!

[woozy]

I think making it to page 2 would be more impressive

[woozy]

THis is going over like a wet squib.

Nudge 1: This is essentially the same mechanism as a recent MOAT. Very recent MOAT
Nudge 2: There are entries grouped together. What is the common bind that binds each group together. I has something to do with order and four letter words.
Nudge 3: What ails Isla Lund's and Lisa Simpson's sail to Isla Bonita? The geology loving Alis (MacGraw and Laila) were interested in the lias there

[Cindy]

Solved

[hoover]

The .puz crashes Across Lite.

[woozy]

The .puz crashes Across Lite.

I have no idea why.


But it certainly does (I probably have too long a clue [that includes a URL]) for one of the down clues.

[benchen71]

I thought nudges were supposed to get more and more explicit as they go. I've looked at all of the nudges here and all of the nudges at Crosshare and I am still well and truly at sea. And it was my MOAT that supposedly led to this meta!

[woozy]

I thought nudges were supposed to get more and more explicit as they go. I've looked at all of the nudges here and all of the nudges at Crosshare and I am still well and truly at sea. And it was my MOAT that supposedly led to this meta!

No. I published this and then that day I did your moat and thought "Oh, that's a coincidence."

Here's a nudge: ACEREIMTEILVAOSTACER EIMT EILV AOSTILSA ISLA LISA SAIL AILS ALIS LIASASIL