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Table Setting by Evan Birnholz.

One of this puzzle's theme answers is the wrong one. The answer to this meta is the theme answer that should replace it, formed by combining two entries in the completed grid.


This puzzle is part of the CCCC bundle. To access the bundle and for more information, see this post.

My first solve of the batch and it was smooth, fun sailing. Thanks for the meta!

I'm generally leery of metas where you have to find grid entries; that last step can be a slog. But not this time. It was obvious enough what I was looking for so just a quick scan of the grid was enough to find it. Very clever meta!

Such a nice, tight and clever meta!

Wow, another one of my favorites. It's deeper than it appeared (to me) on first sight.

The meta prompt looked a bit forbidding upon starting out, but it turned out to be quite straightforward. And fun!

Solved. Fun one.

Fun!

I think it's just the right level for the CCCC, but I wonder what the response would be if it were a WaPo puzzle.

Nice construction, Evan… I missed a crucial piece of info and ended up in some fruitless rabbit holes, but really nice aha! when the lightbulb flipped on

Very fun, thanks (though I might be a bit biased by my day job )

Brilliant - excellent construction. And I like the easter egg even though I did not need it.

Thanks

Great fun, and right up my alley as a geek.

Did appreciate the egg, but had the idea before the recognition of that.

Yikes -- just realized I'd forgotten to post my success with this very successful and enjoyable puzzle.
I think it was because I got confused/distracted picking out what "Casual Shorts" (Evan's WaPo) to wear to dinner... Thanks, Evan!

Loved it but (shame on me) blew it!

I got on to a very odd rabbit trail that ked me an answer but a wrong one. I should have known that with an Evan Birnholz it would be a locked tight GRID, answer and mechanism. Such a dodo...

But, my ineptitude should not reflect one whit upon this fine puzzle.

An excellent and well-crafted meta. This is definitely NOT my area of expertise, so it took me a while to figure out "what's wrong with this picture". Thanks!

Almost botched this, but then took another look and spotted the critical connection I had overlooked before, and then it was a straight shot. Another excellent construction by Evan.

Got it! Thanks for the puzzle, Evan - always a pleasure!

I know I’m sooooooo late to the party with these, but LOVED this puzzle, saw the first step, had my 7 year-old bring up an image on his iPad and we figured it out together. Fun!

We had fun working on this! Thanks so much for this delightful puzzle Evan!