"Make It Count" - July 2021

A monthly, music-themed meta crossword published at noon on the first Tuesday of every month. The puzzles increase in difficulty each month, and at year end there is a 13th puzzle (the "Mega-Meta") that invokes each of the 12 monthly puzzles. Currently available at https://pmxwords.com/, as well as through the Washington Post website here: MMMM at WaPo
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#21

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Pending confirmation, but pretty sure I’ve got this one solved. :)

Hooray! Confirmed!
- Just puzzling it out here in Delmarva :D
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#22

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One of my favorites this year. Bravissimo, Pete!
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#23

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Solved! Nothing a good night's sleep couldn't dislodge!
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Got it.
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On the board.
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#26

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On the board.

One thing I'll say about Pete's puzzles, I usually learn something along the way. But I'll say no more til post-deadline :shushing_face:
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#27

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Not familiar with the meta movement. Had the answer sitting in front of me about an hour after the puzzle came out, but didn't realize it until I got back into it this evening. Maybe you can teach an old dog new tricks.
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ky-mike wrote: Wed Jul 07, 2021 7:38 pm Not familiar with the meta movement. Had the answer sitting in front of me about an hour after the puzzle came out, but didn't realize it until I got back into it this evening. Maybe you can teach an old dog new tricks.
My experience exactly. It was staring at me for what seemed like hours.
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Got it! Nice one
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I too had to be educated. I had the right strategy, but my limited cultural knowledge prevented me from seeing what I had.
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Didn't see this right away, but it finally came to me. Nice construction and I learned something new. Safely on shore. (Now if I could only see the WSJ meta...)
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Sometimes you see it and you don’t see it.
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Ugh. I think I may need to ask for a hint-let.
I found something, but it's not going anywhere.

I'll let it percolate a little longer ...
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Like others, I had it long before I realized it. Learned something new, as well. Happy to have solved this meta and the Red Herring!!
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I figured out the first step quite fast, and reading other's comments I might even have the answer already but I just can't see it.

What's throwing me off is the word "movement". In music, movement can mean a ton of different things. Don't even know what to Google for.
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#36

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Finally! Thanks to a nudge.
I was super close, but one of the pieces was a incorrectly parsed, so unsolvable.
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#37

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Now the comments above make sense.

I have RIOTGRRRL written down in five minutes or so but I dismissed it as gibberish, and tried to find a different answer for hours. Argh, this one hurts.
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Wow... I did not finish this one but was not expecting that answer. Since I didn't submit I couldn't express my amazement that IRONORE wasn't clued toward "the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".
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Guessing this is one where my age was a big help in solving- I feel older or younger solvers may not have immediately realized the answer.
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sharkicicles wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 12:25 pm Guessing this is one where my age was a big help in solving- I feel older or younger solvers may not have immediately realized the answer.
I can speak for this older solver. I had the answer spelled out pretty quickly but dismissed it as pure gibberish. Well, to be perfectly honest I had RITOGRRRL written out because apparently I can't even count this week. But I finally consulted the wonderfully helpful @Wendy Walker, who told me to look at what I had right in front of me. And wonder of wonders, when I typed RITOGRRRL into google, it helpfully prompted RIOT GRRRL BANDS. :woman_facepalming:

Never heard of it.
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