Here's the answer to "Drink You Under The Table":
I'm in two minds about this puzzle. On the one hand, it has a couple of flaws: the repetition of Bromine in the mechanism; and the use of a Lanthanide appearing "under" an element with a much higher atomic number simply because the Lanthanides are often displayed below the Table of Elements. (And before you say, "What about CRORF?", you will recall that we agreed not to speak of it again!)
On the other hand, this is such a fun meta mechanism! I love the way it utilises two different "unders", one that leads to RED HERRING (with a space in the grid right where you need it in the phrase, too!) and the other that leads to the meta answer proper. That was the original idea. It's just that when I started trying to form the name of a cocktail (this was
before I discovered that RED HERRING was a cocktail!) using element symbols that appear under another element symbol (thereby ruling out all of the elements across the top of the table), I discovered that it was far harder than I thought it would be. And then, of course, RED HERRING is 10 letters long, so if the element symbols have two letters, then that seriously cuts down potential candidates. So I extended the search into liquors and wine names. When I stumbled across ICE WINE, even with the problems noted above, I jumped at it. I hope that you felt that it was all worth it in the end!
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