Re: Resolution
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2023 2:37 pm
Off the comfortable couch. Great puzzle and thank you for the nudges 
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Re: Resolution
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2023 8:17 pm
Needed the third nudge to show me that I was doing things kind of backwards. Fun stuff as always, thanks.
Re: Resolution
Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2023 3:42 pm
Well, it took longer than it should but that is all on me.
What a brilliant puzzle! Happily off the couch and waiting for our weekly treat!
What a brilliant puzzle! Happily off the couch and waiting for our weekly treat!
Re: Resolution
Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2023 11:32 am
Off the couch with nudges, thanks so much!
Re: Resolution
Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2023 11:06 am
Since last head count, another two dozen solvers have turned up, brining the total to seventy-one.
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The answer is NOT AGAIN.
The self-effacing prompt ("what you might say on seeing yet another Bird Lives puzzle") emerged from the scheduling, which I had nothing to do with. The two previous SSS metas had been mine, one of them appearing just the day before this MMM. But the answer NOT AGAIN is also integral with the metanism.
The RE prefix often means that the root of the word is done again. That’s obvious with words like retweet (tweet again). But in even many less literal re-words, the sense of the root word is still present (reform, review, etc). The eight symmetrically placed themers are all words whose meaning changes entirely when preceded by RE. So REPLY is not PLY again; REVEAL is not VEAL again, and so on. The actual meaning of each RE-word can be clued by one of the other clues. The entries for those clues, top to bottom, spell out the answer.
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Thanks to all for the kind and often clever comments.
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The answer is NOT AGAIN.
The self-effacing prompt ("what you might say on seeing yet another Bird Lives puzzle") emerged from the scheduling, which I had nothing to do with. The two previous SSS metas had been mine, one of them appearing just the day before this MMM. But the answer NOT AGAIN is also integral with the metanism.
The RE prefix often means that the root of the word is done again. That’s obvious with words like retweet (tweet again). But in even many less literal re-words, the sense of the root word is still present (reform, review, etc). The eight symmetrically placed themers are all words whose meaning changes entirely when preceded by RE. So REPLY is not PLY again; REVEAL is not VEAL again, and so on. The actual meaning of each RE-word can be clued by one of the other clues. The entries for those clues, top to bottom, spell out the answer.
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Thanks to all for the kind and often clever comments.