79. All the Time

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79. All the Time

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PDF and PUZ

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Honestly, that kind of happened today. :lol:

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We continue the Winter Solvestice today with some actual snow in the Midwest! Perfect time to stay inside and curl up with a good book or a meta or three!

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Puzzle #78 answer: CHILD'S PLAY

Correct entries: 84 (second of all time!!)

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Thanks again to @BrennerTJ for some epic graphics! Little explanation needed - and we're doing mini-drawings during the solve-stice, so those will be revealed later!

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A bit of a lurch on difficulty; we had a great Level 1, but this one will actually jump to (so I believe) a Level 4; we'll then have 2 and 3 following that to close out the month.

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79. All the Time

The answer to the meta is a phrase visually depicted in the grid.

Deadline is Saturday, January 20 at 1 pm ET.

Good luck, and may all your solves be beautiful!

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:crossed_swords: :rabbit: :clock: 6A to you Mikey - that was wild and fun!
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Wow, Mikey, you never fail to impress in your concepts, execution, and especially cluing. Some real LOLers in there… cheers!
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I had the right idea, just not really. I liked this puzzle a lot more after I solved it. With some help. Nice job, Mikey!
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Meg wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 6:55 pm I had the right idea, just not really.
Story of my life, haha.

I don't think it's ruining too much to say (but I will put it behind a spoiler) that the fill is brutal in places, which would never be allowed for a non-meta...so clearly, there usually must be a reason for that! I think determining issues in fill that cause us to raise our eyebrows is often a good solving strategy!
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Very nice! I had some help to solve it (I need practice with this mechanism too), which was good because I was getting WAY off track.
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I can't wait to work 10-Down into a conversation.
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Abide wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:22 pm I can't wait to work 10-Down into a conversation.
Be sure you pronounce it correctly.
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Luckily the weather outside meant I had all the time in the world to work on this, yet only solved during a 4.30am bout of insomnia!
Back to zzzzz…
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I neglected to post earlier, but I only solved this one with a nudge! Clever puzzle, though.
Check out "The MOAT MEOW Mashup Pack" here. US$10 for 14 metas that don't always abide by the "rules" of the game: asymmetry, 2-letter words, uncrossed letters, who knows. And this time there's a mega-meta! :shock:
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Needed help yesterday but solved. Tricky one. Thanks Mikey.
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Gneiss!

My 10-D of over-thinking were fortunately reined in by a friendly, helpful Muggle (aren’t they all?).

Thanks, Mr. G!
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Solved.
Thanks!
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Re. 52D... One thing I can say about UC Santa Cruz... If there's ever a clue about its mascot there won't be any ambiguity.....

Re. 51A... My high school math teacher used to post daily jokes. He once posted about a dream where he had to get an eye exam on a small island in the chain off of Alaska but when he awoke he found....

Anyway... my ego has only just recovered from the first week of the year, and I was beginning to feel in fine form with the WSJ causing hardly a ripple and the MGWCC being not as hard as I was making it but my psyche was willing to allow a nudge. But then.... the weekend... and the two usual suspects. *sigh*
Funny story. I was all set to enter Par for the course for the CrossHare midi contest for April but I mistakenly thought midi meant 7x 7 and not 11 x 11. Oops. Well.... Here's a complex but **small** meta on the subject of golf.
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All I can say is wow. Really glad I stuck it out and kept pulling at this one, such a cool mechanism when it finally fell into place!
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KayW wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 2:44 pm :crossed_swords: :rabbit: :clock: 6A to you Mikey - that was wild and fun!
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Reminds me of my husband, twice a year, changing all the clocks in the house.


Met the deadline --
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Got it! Thanks, Mikey! :D
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We're at 23 so far, and I'm happy with that! Solid Level 4. We'll be doing a nudge a day until I forget, but we'll start cryptically.

1. There are an abnormal amount of As in this grid; that's really just a side effect of some other restrictions going on!
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Bingpot! Brilliant meta. S.A.D. but not "sad."
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Quiara wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 2:17 pm Bingpot! Brilliant meta. S.A.D. but not "sad."
You turned into a super solver! (A little "X-Men" meta reference there.)

(I will also start using "Bingpot!")
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