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Formerly known as the “Sunday Summer Substitute”, editor Cap'n Rick now takes the helm for 'Smooth Sailing Sundays'. As The Commodores sang about Sunday morning, the SSS will focus on easier metas. SSS will also support smaller grids and will mentor new constructors on request. Puzzles released each Sunday around 8am Eastern. Nudges released same day at Noon Eastern. New constructors are welcome.
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Lovely Sunday sssstroll. Thanks for all your puzzles, Dr. T.
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Nicely done!
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Late start, but insta-solve sans nudges. Good stuff, thanks.
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SSSolved without nudges.
Now back to my cluttered to-do list...
Bespoke nudges available upon request (if I'm on shore, off the couch, in the castle, petting an un-bagged cat, ...).
Let me know how small or large a hint you want, or hit me with a specific question(s).
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Sssolved without nudges.
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SSSSolved earlier today. I had one amusing close call that I told the good doctor about.
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SSSolved, after taking down and putting away all Christmas decorations . . . . . Thx Doc!
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Wow, I would have SWORN that I posted the nudges for this puzzle in next message, because I posted the Crosshare ones at the same time, but they do not appear to be there? Maybe I never submitted, my apologies:

NUDGES:

The theme answers are pretty clear from their length and silliness.

Reading through them, and taking the Title into account, does anything pop out at you?

Actually do TWO things pop out at you?

Did you see that all of the theme answers were the same length, might that narrow down the choices for the last member of the group?

Think University of Florida football 2005-2010
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I don't know if this will be my most solved puzzle, but it certainly gets the prize for First Day:

1 markhr 
2 Danny K Bernstein 
3 benchen71 
4 Berto 
5 Kulea 
6 Tom Wilson 
7 Pair O Ducks 
8 lbray53 
9 LarsCaine 
10 kymike 
11 DCBilly 
12 DavyGravy 
13 ChrisKochmanski
14 whimsy 
15 JHSeeman 
16 Mwoychick 
17 hoover 
18 imontoo 
19 Capn Rick 
20 michaelm 
21 Mr Tex 
22 JM 
23 Tyrpmom 
24 Carolyn 
25 Hector 
26 Bird Lives 
27 woozy 
28 rjy 
29 KayW 
30 Qmark 
31 Dave C 
32 MatthewL 
33 Darth 
34 DIS 
35 Meg 
36 Wendy Walker 
37 Cindy Heisler 
38 ajk 
39 Abide 
40 Tim 
41 ELSavage 
42 Anita and Steve 
43 BarbaraK 
44 Chris Barbee 
45 Heb 
46 Eric Porter 
47 Streroto
48 Bob_cruise_director

My goodness, quite a turn out and it seems it is well liked in addition to that. I can head into NYE feeling pumped!
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whimsy wrote: Sun Dec 29, 2024 10:13 am SSS
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That moment when they realized that neither had packed the Ripple...
Thanks, DrTom!
and were driving the Thunderbird......

HNY Whimsy!
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KayW wrote: Sun Dec 29, 2024 12:37 pm :crossed_swords: :rabbit: :sailboat: SSSolved. Thanks so much for another year of fantastic metas!
and thank you Kay for both testing and nudging when needed!

T
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Abide wrote: Sun Dec 29, 2024 3:41 pmNicely done!
Thanks Peter, glad you liked it. It's been a long road from "To Eat for Tea" to here and you helped patch the asphalt!

T
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Bob cruise director wrote: Sun Dec 29, 2024 5:14 pm SSSSolved earlier today. I had one amusing close call that I told the good doctor about.
Interestingly you were the SECOND person who mentioned that particular hole...

T
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More "body" snatchers:

49 HeadinHome 
50 CPJohnson 
51 Cindy Weatherman 
52 Jaclyn 


An entire deck of solvers, hooray...now the NYE slump while people attend to family, friends and festivities instead of solving...but I'll forgive you because that is how it should be! Have a great night tomorrow everybody.

T
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More bodies have piled on bringing the grand total to:

53 Indiana55543 
54 Rufus T Firefly 
55 SJ
56 DaBromsJames
57 Derek M

FIFTY-SEVEN!!! YAY!!! Slightly more than a day until the reveal so if you were going to get in there get in there now!
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One last person crossed the finish line:

58 Lance

This meta was one of my most solved, thanks to all 58 of you, and now......
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This puzzle was popular, perhaps because people got it full of the Holiday spirit, perhaps because it was, overall, fairly easy to spot the Themers with the long goofy answers. The one criticism I did get was that it was the answer was, though 11 letters and two body parts like the others, a three and a FOUR letter part as opposed to two three letter parts.

There is a reason for that, the remaining three letter body parts, once you eliminate one I was not going to use because I was afraid I’d offend, were JAW and GUM. I thought of LEGUME but of course that has two body parts of its own and GUMBALL, GUMMIES or DADGUM were just too easy. So I took it on the CHIN. Besides, truth be known, I LIKED the idea of URCHIN MEYER.

Other than that, everything went smoothly and I got 58 solvers!!!!!

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Dr, thanks. If people aren’t familiar with Urban Meyer, he had one of the shortest and most infamous coaching tenures in the NFL.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/328 ... uars-coach
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