In Sequence

Formerly known as the “Sunday Summer Substitute”, editor Cap'n Rick now takes the helm for 'Smooth Sailing Sundays'. As The Commodores sang about Sunday morning, the SSS will focus on easier metas. SSS will also support smaller grids and will mentor new constructors on request. Puzzles released each Sunday around 8am Eastern. Nudges released same day at Noon Eastern. New constructors are welcome.
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Sssolved after getting an inadvertent nudge at the Tues meetup.
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Congrats to another four solvers who joined the crowd today:

hoover
Katiedid
markhr
ReB
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We have one more solver to welcome before the reveal: Rufus T Firefly. Thanks to all who solved and your kind comments about the puzzle. And now for the reveal!
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As the reveal gif shows, the hint CLUE in the grid indicates where to look once you've identified the theme answers, ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, and FIVE. If you apply the theme answer to its clue In Sequence, you get the letters O R D E R, something you might or might not follow.

Finding the sequence was one path, and the another way to solve would be to recognize that the first parts of each clue could go with the the word ORDER

Out of order
Pre-order
Side order
Telephone order
Natural order

Thanks again for solving
Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC) is a bundle of 16 contest-style (meta) crosswords that we've created to help raise money for cancer-related organizations - get the bundle at http://crosswordsforcancer.com
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