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I enjoyed this one! Good practice for Tuesday's MMMM. Fun fact: Evan Birnholz and I share an alma mater (we never overlapped though), and our alumni magazine did a write-up on him when he first became the WaPo crossword guy, which is what really got me into solving crossword puzzles. I was a much more casual solver before then.
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I liked the Grid - it was a smooth solve even having never heard of 4 of the 5 songs. But because I know nothing about music I'm not even going to bother with the meta because it seems like you probably need to in order to solve it.
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The meta is very solvable without any knowledge of the songs. Read the title.
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Well I had found a band while finishing the grid but I don't really know but one of their songs - that's why I figured I wouldn't be able to do it because if you don't know a song I don't know how you would be able to put it together from clues.
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Well that was fun! No music knowledge required.
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Does anyone know when and where the solution will be posted? I don’t have a WaPo subscription. And have never done one of their puzzles?
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Well I figured it out - but only through Google - so to say you don't need music knowledge is not entirely accurate - you don't need music knowledge if you use google.
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Google is fair game for a meta.
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All you gotta know is what to Google.
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Another puzzle where I ask HOW DO THEY DO THAT??? It was actually pretty difficult, and long (but of course it became evident why it wa so long). Still I got all the letters and had a tough time because I'm used to them being in order or at least ACROSS then DOWN. I had to play with he letters for some time because I got a word going with the ACROSS then DOWN that anagrammed to a word that could easily have been in an 80's song (though more likely a 70;s song)
Brilliantly laid out, cannot imagine the difficulty in doing that.
Brilliantly laid out, cannot imagine the difficulty in doing that.
NUDGES!I am always willing to give nudges where needed; metas should be about fun, not frustration. Send me what you have done so far because often you are closer than you think!
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Fun! One of my favorite songs and bands at the time.
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Well, I made the big mistake of thinking the meta would be found using the same mechanism as step 1. When you assume.....it’s so true.
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I briefly went down that path too! But then I thought first I should see if something else worked... I was a bit surprised when it did, actually.