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Off the couch!

Day 4 - Seven more Muggles have reached the leaderboard bringing our total to 58:

Naptown Kid
SewYoung
TMart
CromsFury
Alex R
zuckylee
Beth Tyrpin

Can we get to 60? Stay tuned!

Finally nudged off the couch!

MamaE wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 1:11 pm Finally nudged off the couch!

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Day 5 - A few more Muggles made it off their respective couches bringing our total to 62!

StartChoppin
LB800
MikeyG

Thanks for solving, everyone! Solution tomorrow.

What a great smile factor. At first, I was like, "What the heck? There's literally nothing." And then when you see it, you see it! A lot of fun!!

The meta answer is "CHEVY CHASE", (and you're not).

The key to this puzzle was noticing the four "Chevy" models on the left side of the grid adjacent to the four synonyms for "chase" on the right. The title - "Celebrity Hound" - also followed the same convention. The central GASOLINES at 20-Down was intended to provide a hint for the cars.


That's it - short and sweet! This was one of those metas where you either saw it or you didn't. Like I mentioned on the Zoom, my wife Erin gave me the idea for this puzzle. We were driving along, and I was telling her how meta ideas can be found most anywhere. Just then a Ford passed us, and I used it as an example saying it could be a car, a person, or a verb. "Like Chevy Chase," she said. Bingo!

Thanks everyone for solving!

Smooth seas!
Cap'n Rick

Fun puzzle, Cap'n! I'm playing catch up... as I just got back (ironically) from a "European vacation"

[Of course, I was expecting the celebrity "hound" would be Snoop Dogg! haha]