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Puzzles! Puns! The occasional crosswordese! Solve a new meta at the end of each of month at https://punofakind.blogspot.com/
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PDF and PUZ

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Hello, all! It's time to rock and roll with our end-of-month meta, delayed a week due to a great bundle (see below). A few notes:

1. I would only presume that everybody here is going to order, or has already ordered, CCCC, and I was honored to contribute my own meta. I thank all of you for solving! (And thank you, @AnswerPfinder, for putting it all together!)

2. The Summer of Solves is back!

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Beginning in two weeks on Saturday, May 20, I will be posting a meta every Saturday (!) for 16 consecutive weeks, with difficulty in general following MGWCC conventions. I had a lot of fun doing this last year, and I look forward to sharing more of my creations with you again in '23!

Now onto this puzzle!

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The answer to the meta is often discarded.

Deadline is Tuesday, May 16 at 1 pm ET.

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Best of luck, and may all your solves be beautiful!

Mikey G
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Kinda weird-I solved this one very quickly (about 15 minutes) and was confirmed on Crossshare but my name is not on the leaderboard. Is anyone else having this issue?
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Solved
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Got it!
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Fun! Thanks, Mikey!
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Loved the variety of clues, but particularly the punny ones, of course!
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Happy to solve this one because as regards the "you either see it or you don't" WSJ, I'm one of the don'ts. :P
Thanks for the puzzle, Mikey!
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My CCCC brain is slowly becoming unfogged. Another nice one, my friend. Looking forward to the SOS :!:
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Abide wrote: ↑Sat May 06, 2023 5:08 pm My CCCC brain is slowly becoming unfogged. Another nice one, my friend. Looking forward to the SOS :!:
My CCCC brain is mostly fogged from yours, bahaha. No nudges just yet, but my brain has been so racked the last couple of days with it!

Puzzle note: There was a typo in 17-A, which should and now reads "Every 3,600,000 milliseconds." This slight was not meta-related.

Onward!
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Excellent construction - and fun to solve. Thanks Mikey!
Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC) is a bundle of 16 metapuzzles created to help raise money for cancer-related charities. It is available at CrosswordsForCancer.com.
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Got it. Thanks Mikey.
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It took resubmitting to get my name listed as a solver. As Matt says "Better late than never" 🤣
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Fun puzzle as always!
Check out "The MOAT MEOW Mashup Pack" here. US$10 for 14 metas that don't always abide by the "rules" of the game: asymmetry, 2-letter words, uncrossed letters, who knows. And this time there's a mega-meta! :shock:
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17A?

Inflation?

(Fun puzzle.)
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Great puzzle, Mikey! Enjoyed it.
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Solved. With just the right amount of PUNishment for a Sunday!
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Solved, and really enjoyed it!
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Got it… really nice one, Mikey, with terrific clueing as always! Bring on SOS!!
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Amusing and superbly constructed puz! Definitely a keeper! Thanks.
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After the weekend, we're clocking in at 29 entries, making this one play more like a 2.5 so far. Fine by me! I think we can push toward the half-century mark for this one, with nudges in a couple of days.

In my own updates nobody asked for, I'm 10/16 through CCCC but have yet to get to the MMM and the MOAT this week. I also brainstorm ideas and have about half of them already squared away, including some grids, for SOS. Also look forward to SSS and AAA (Association of Acronyms Aficionados).
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Got it!
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