So You Say — December 23, 2021

[ChrisKochmanski]

I’ve submitted. Though not 100% sure. I may be missing something.

[boharr]

Submitted

[Cinny]

Submitted.

[ricky]

Chris, you were correct and the first correct answer yet again!

I can't update the leaderboard rn but I had a handful of correct answers and no wrong ones by midday yesterday.

[Meg]

Submitted and feeling good about it.

[hcbirker]

What puzzle is this?

[ricky]

What puzzle is this?

http://www.lexicondevil.live/2021/12/pu ... -meta.html

Answers due by noon tomorrow.

[ricky]

Leaderboard at present:

[ricky]

The leaderboard didn't change from the above by the deadline.

Congratulations to winners I.K. Snamhcok and duckrental!

ANSWER:

JULY FOURTH

EXPLANATION:

This one doesn't require annotating an image of the grid. There are three across entries that are clearly related: APRILRHODES, MAYPARKER, JUNECLEAVER. These are all female fictional characters, which was basically just for conceptual consistency given that one of the few ways to get an APRIL/MAY/JUNE set of entries is to use women's names.

The next term in the APRIL/MAY/JUNE series would be JULY, which would also be the FOURTH term of the series. If you thought of either "July" or "the Fourth," you'd be hard-pressed to think of another American holiday besides July Fourth, or Independence Day (I accepted all names for the given holiday).

For extra confirmation, the title "So You Say" contains the letter sequence USA.

This had a relatively small number of entries but the answers were 100% correct, and submitters rated the puzzle an average of 2/5 difficulty. If there were other folks out there who solved the puzzle but couldn't get the meta, I'd be interested to hear from you via DM. Thanks again for solving!