Musical Chair

Thank you, I try to get where I am going and then not move until everyone else ahs gone home!

You were thinking "Oh My Papa" and "It take two to Tango"? Well if I could have fit Julius LaRosa in the squares I would have!

Well as one of the consistent early solvers, you certainly "live among the stars"

Same to you. I'd sing you a Sinatra Christmas song but I have been specifically restrained from doing that by the Sinatra estate (and my wife)

Lucky you, I sometimes just go on and on compounding mine! Glad you enjoyed it Mark.

Well I'm pretty sure Old Blue Eyes said it himself:

I get no kick from the plain

Mere filling grids just puts me on the skids

But with a meta it’s true

That I get a kick out of you

Glad you enjoyed it!

Of course, I wouldn't want it to depend on luck being a lady or have you think it was witchcraft or something you would only find once in a blue moon. The first letter of the "meta" clues spell Sinatra. So technically you would not even have to solve the grid if you recognized that the meta clues were all very wonkily worded.

There are some clues that follow a very specific format and the answer to those clues are all references to Sinatra songs "NYNY" "MYWAY" "Fly my to the MOON." The first letters of each of those clues spell out SINATRA.

Interestingly he was my Dad and Mom's favorite too and I never appreciated him until much later in life, but he certainly is one of mine now.

My pleasrue Carolyn, thanks for all the metas you solved!

Thanks and ditto!

Ah yes, someone who doesn't have pink hair or tattoos (not that there are not some wonderful post-Sinatra entertainers, I'm just partial)

Yes, I would imagine many of these were a few decades out of your sphere of listening. Thanks for solving Phil.

Well you see, I was trying to light your fire and apparently showed you the right Door. Thanks for solving.

So glad you enjoyed it! Your solve is part of MY present!!!!

That is saved as one of my favorites as well. No road trip is complete without Frank!

Thanks for solving!

Yes originally I had RAT clued as "Pack animal", can't remember when, or certainly why, I changed it? But Dean was on purpose.

Thank you, I am glad you have enjoyed them.

Thank you! I'll start spreading the news.

Well you know me, I like to do it my way when I get one of these under my skin! Thanks for the kind comments and the solve and here's hoping the best is yet to come.

Better late than never! Glad you enjoyed it. perhaps you are a Sinatra fan?