"2 State the Obvious" - August 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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"2 State the Obvious" - August 2021

#1

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The meta for this puzzle is the missing fifth theme entry, a musician in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.


Send in your answer to the meta before 11pm ET Sunday, August 8, at pmxwords.com.
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#2

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#6. Beat by a few muggles it seems.
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#3

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Al with another Sistine performance at #2.

Initially I thought there was more than one possible answer, with one much more natural, but now I see that I was wrong about that.
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#4

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Fast for me at number ten. The top ten has a lot of muggles—great work guys!
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#5

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Good work as I watch from the sidelines this month.
Rushed and flubbed my entry this month.
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#6

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Wow, can't believe I got this one done on a Tuesday. I've been in a definite slump the last couple of months.
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#7

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Solved :musical_note:
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#8

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Got it. Felt a small step down in difficulty from previous two.
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#9

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#10

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Forgot this was the first Tuesday of the month! #36. Also got the red herring, which I suspected for a few months, but absolutely no clue on the mega...
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#11

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Got it.
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#12

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On da board!

Enjoyed!
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#13

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I got this after some initial missteps and rabbit holes. It's nice to have fairly quick success on this after striking out on the MGWCC fifth-fifth week meta.
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#14

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Got it. I expected to be stumped based on the last few MMMMs. My stabs in the dark turned out to be on target this time.
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#15

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I sent in an H.G. Wells answer. Not actually H.G. Wells, but you get the idea. Of course, it was wrong. Sigh.
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#16

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Took me a little while to put the pieces of this together, but made it to the board. Thanks to someone here for posting something to this page (not a spoiler!) that helped me realize I'd been reading something incorrectly. Made all the difference.
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#17

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Solved.
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#18

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I see something which is perhaps part of the solution, but not specific enough as multiple musicians in the Hall of Fame have the same property. I don't think it's a just a coincidence, but maybe I'm in a rabbit hole.

I didn't get last month's puzzle, but I did solve the red herring.
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#19

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Eric Porter wrote: Tue Aug 03, 2021 8:27 pm I see something which is perhaps part of the solution, but not specific enough as multiple musicians in the Hall of Fame have the same property. I don't think it's a just a coincidence, but maybe I'm in a rabbit hole.

I didn't get last month's puzzle, but I did solve the red herring.
I feel I may have missed part of this meta, as even though I got it right it was more of like “well what the hell else could the answer be” rather than a completely mathematically un-eliminated response. And Pete is not prone to incomplete metas, he is up there with the Great and Wise MG on these things.
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#20

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Solved! I was stuck before the Muggle Zoom call tonight, but spending an hour hanging out with all those super-solvers must've shaken something loose.
Good luck, fellow Muggles!
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