MGWCC #789 — “Solve for X”

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KayW wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 8:01 am but could not see any reason to use those letters, nor why WARHOL would be clued as someone who deals with big numbers.
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oh and I forgot to mention one other rabbit hole that rather amused me:
I looked at the words represented in the "X" position (second letter) of the four initialisms/acronyms in the grid:

WWII - War
FOIA - Of
IUDS - Uterine
SEIU - Employees
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KayW wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 10:34 pm oh and I forgot to mention one other rabbit hole that rather amused me:
I looked at the words represented in the "X" position (second letter) of the four initialisms/acronyms in the grid:

WWII - War
FOIA - Of
IUDS - Uterine
SEIU - Employees
I did that too.
So I just plain couldn't get my meta based on "Up the Down Staircase" to work.

My challenge it to constructors is to make a meta where the meta, theme or metanism is "Up the Down Staircase".
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