Third Time's the Charm (META)

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Sunday Crossword by Evan Birnholz
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Third Time's the Charm (META)

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Third Time's the Charm

The answer to this week's metapuzzle is a six letter word.
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Fun one as always @ebirnholz!
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Entertaining grid and meta.
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I enjoyed this even as I looked again. And again. Also, nice title.
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Nice easy meta. Luckily I didn’t need to look for long.
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Solved.
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Solved. Had to put it down after some initial thoughts and progress, then inspiration hit and I realized what the answer was.
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Got it!
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Fun Sunday solve!
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Charmed, I'm sure!

Thanks, Evan!
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Third time for me on Evan's puzzles. This one was indeed quite charming.
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Late start - quite a drop of puzzles Sunday! - but got it… fun one, Evan!
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Solved. Very fun. Tougher grid than usual, but fair.
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Nicely done! Love the title.
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Posting this a month later, but here's the solution:

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There are six trios of answers in which all three entries have the same clue (for instance, GRIP, MANAGE and ALIAS are all clued as “Handle”). As the title suggests, the third answer in each trio will lead to the meta answer. Ignore the first two triplets in each set and take the first letter of each third answer to spell out AMULET.
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