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Good morning, muggles, it's me, schmidzy, back with another pairoducksical puzzle! I had a lot of fun brainstorming ideas for this puzzle, and I hope you enjoy solving it, too. I'll be on the road today (it's a beautiful weekend to hike the Red River Gorge!), but I'll do my best to respond to each one of you as soon as I can.

Thanks go out to @Abide and @Wendy Walker for their expert test-solving and advising, and to @Joe Ross for his technical wizardry.

Happy Solving!

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SSSolved. Although I'm not sure how. Thanks!
Edit: Upon reflection, all is ....well, I can't say here.

Nice one, Schmidzy!

boharr wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2023 9:14 am SSSolved. Although I'm not sure how. Thanks!
Edit: Upon reflection, all is ....well, I can't say here.

Sssolved in a sssimilar ssstyle - still need to get the further reflection tho!

SSSolved - thanks for the puzzle

Sssolved! Thank you for the puzzle!

SSSolved!

SSSolved (without interwebbing, even!) Nice one, thanks!

Sssolved! Fun one!

My favorite thing about the SSS is you don't have to suffer too long without nudges! With that in mind:

Those four long two-word entries have got to be important.

66A tells you which half of the themers to use.

My brother and I used to play a word game (and maybe you have too) that we called "triplets." Here's an example: muscle, dial, deaf. Answer:tone Or: house, elephant, snow. Answer: white

You're looking for a word that goes with the first half of each themer. The title should help if you're still stuck.

If you've got the word but can't get the rest of the band name, think what's another word for the first part of something? (Hint: the clue for 66A was a little on the nose.)

Sssolved without nudges. Very nice one. Thanks!

Solved after the third nudge focused me on something I should have explored further without it
Fun one, thanks.

Sssolved without nudges. Thanks for the puzzle!

Sssolved. Thanksss for the fun puz.

SSSolved, gosh I feel so airy! Thanks for the puzzle, it was just ducky!

Got it; needed 3 nudges. Thanks for the puzzle!

SSSolved! But I needed all of the nudges!

Sssolved without nudges. But I do have a bit of familiarity with the subject.

SSSolved -- no nudges, just late to the game. Thanks, schmidzy!

Oh, and just to prove I'd never hurt a duck, here are a couple I rescued from a construction site with new houses going in at the end of our road. Found them in some rubble about six months ago, placed them safely in the decorative entrance to the development (much ritzier than our street!) and, surprisingly, there they remain, like little mini-mansion mascots.


Ready for their close-up --

Day 1 solver update: 43 solvers!

Abide (TS)
Wendy Walker (TS)
boharr
Meg
Cindy Weatherman
Philip Chow
FrankieHeck
JM
rjy
Tyrpmom
Mwoychick
SamKat9
Hector
I K Snamhcok
KayW
merlinnimue
Strereto
Berto
heidi
Carolyn
DIS
woozy
Cindy Heisler
ajk
Darth
MatthewL
Gutman
michaelm
DrTom
BrennerTJ
Laura M
Jeremy Smith
LindaPRmaven
damefox
GR
BarbaraK
Katiedid
Larry Edelstein
benchen71
CPJohnson
hoover
whimsy
Dow Jones