#642 - "We're Surrounded!"

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Jacksull wrote: Wed Sep 23, 2020 1:25 pm I solved the BLUE’S part of the meta, but where does the CLUES part come from? Did I miss it, or is it just understood?

I did find a “C” surrounded by AHAH, but that was it for me.
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I was hoping that each of the clues for the three-letter answers would start with C-L-U-E-S. The first and last did, but not the LUE. This was a good puzzle, but having the clues spell out CLUES would have made it a great one.
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I saw a HUUGGE number of state letter abbreviations in this one, lots of CO and NE and ID and others ... and thought ... hmm, "She's a Lady" and States ... and submitted HANNAH MONTANA.
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norrin2 wrote: Wed Sep 23, 2020 1:24 pm
Joe Ross wrote: Wed Sep 23, 2020 12:49 pm
norrin2 wrote: Wed Sep 23, 2020 12:28 pm Why is it only the three letter words that count? Isn't the G in MIDGE surrounded by D and E? And the T in TATS by the A and the S?
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Gotta love those apostrophes
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