"Cold Opens" -- Jan. 21, 2024

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Wendy Walker
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"Cold Opens" -- Jan. 21, 2024

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Puzzle #93: Cold Opens

Difficulty: Easy
The answer to this week's meta are things you (probably) see more often in the winter.
Google? No. Bing? Also, no.
Crosshare link: https://crosshare.org/crosswords/HIbGCb ... cold-opens

The deadline for this puzzle is 9:00am eastern time on Sunday, January 28, 2024.

Another fun (and seasonable) one from Will!
Good luck, fellow Muggles!
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It's cold out of the box. Thanks, Will.
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Dino me! 🦕 Very cold here this morning. Perfect day for staying inside and working on metas. Thanks, Will!
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Brrreezy one this morning. Thanks, Will!
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Dino me!
I see them about as often in the winter as in the summer - never!
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Dino me! Thanks, Will! 🦖
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🦕🦕🦕🚞. Thanks Will. I’m having Crosshare issues. It never moves on from checking for previous play data, so I’m unable to submit.
Edit: Used my desktop and was successful.
Last edited by Meg on Sun Jan 21, 2024 12:15 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Dino me!
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So easy it was hard.
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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woozy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 11:55 am So easy it was hard.
Still hard... waiting for the easy part
Ray
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Dino me!

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Less cross words, more crosswords.

Solve my latest "Pun of a Kind" Meta!: 92. It's a Breeze
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rjy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 12:02 pm
woozy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 11:55 am So easy it was hard.
Still hard... waiting for the easy part
It's easy now... ugh! Fun one to wrestle with!
Ray
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🦖 me.
Took a while but finally my frozen brain thawed.
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Dino me! Thanks I enjoyed it, there were some fun clues.
Shannon 🐱
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:crossed_swords: :rabbit: :sauropod: Fun one, dino me! Boy did I try to make that harder than it was. Thanks, Will.
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Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC) is a bundle of 16 metapuzzles created to help raise money for cancer-related charities. It is available at CrosswordsForCancer.com.
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Dino me!
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"Cold enough for ya?"

Fun one -- thanks, Will!
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Dino me. Like some others, made this way too hard. Oh well -- at least I finally got it.
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Dino me finally. After trying to overcomplicate matters, the answer popped up after I did a bit of outside work this afternoon and then took a fresh look.

Thanks Will
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A “breezy” one — thanks!
The other Wendy. :roll:
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Fun one! Thanks Will!
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