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· By Pandora's Blocks Meta Crosswords · Published 2022-06-19T12:59:13.822Z

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The answer to this week's meta is... well, you'll know it when you see it.
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  • Capn Rick 🤓5:59 · 2022-06-19T13:24:28.215Z
    Great construction, Will! Loved it!
    • Qmark 5s · 2022-06-19T14:21:39.057Z
      Great puzzle, Will! My first idea for the mechanism proved correct but because of your clever choice of examples, I explored several other ideas before coming back to it. Kudos!
      • Hector 3s · 2022-06-19T14:14:08.580Z
        Thank you, Will, was considering an unhealthy breakfast of orange stars and green clovers, but you've convinced me to hold out for genuine froot
        • Pandora's Blocks Weekly Meta Crossword constructor · 2022-06-20T14:50:04.495Z
          It's the breakfast of champions!
        • Jeff G 5s · 2022-06-19T15:33:15.319Z
          Great puzzle to do over Sunday morning breakfast! Thanks.
          • boharr 4s · 2022-06-19T15:46:16.367Z
            Nice one.
            • Joe 3s · 2022-06-19T16:30:38.683Z
              Lovely! I confess I did need to Google once. You can probably guess where. :)
              • Sfull411 🤓3:42 · 2022-06-19T17:30:30.015Z
                Really a fun solve. Thanks, Will!
                • Laura M 🤓9:22 · 2022-06-19T18:24:37.603Z
                  Nice one! Had to backsolve for rambutan, I never heard of it!
                  • vandono 🤓12:27 · 2022-06-19T19:31:42.218Z
                    so that's what it was! i knew something had to be there (after the first few froots) and tried a couple different permutations but never quite got it.
                  • whimsy 13:49 · 2022-06-19T18:40:09.030Z
                    Feisty, fruity, and fun! Thanks, Will!
                    • DebbieC 16:56 · 2022-06-19T20:12:02.635Z
                      Berry nice! Got 2/3 of the answer, enough to know what else I was looking for. Thanks for a fruitful afternoon.
                      • ReB 20s · 2022-06-19T21:56:50.321Z
                        Figured out the mechanism immediately but took a while to find the first loop, and more time to find the other cleverly hidden ones. Needed Google to find the last fruit (RAMBUTAN).
                        • Bird Lives 9s · 2022-06-19T23:27:39.484Z
                          I don't spend much time in the cereal aisle. I guessed the mechanism immediately. (I think there was a Mike Shenk puzzle based on Cadillacs that did something similar.) And then I didn't realize how the answer was related to the title and mechanism. The relevant bit of knowledge was buried deep in my brain and it took several moments to get there.
                        • I K Snamhcok 1s · 2022-06-20T01:54:44.320Z
                          Fun looking for the fruit! Thanks, Will!
                          • MamaEllen 2s · 2022-06-20T03:31:05.379Z
                            Fun!
                            • Tyrpmom 2s · 2022-06-20T04:45:03.678Z
                              It’s amazing how hard they are to find.
                              • THC 🤓4:10 · 2022-06-20T16:16:12.208Z
                                Never heard of a “rambutan”. After looking at a picture, not sure I'd want to eat it!
                                • rjy 3s · 2022-06-20T16:56:44.111Z
                                  Very clever, enjoyed it, Will!
                                  I must say, I was initially sidetracked by the "AP-PLE" that "looped" from the bottom of column 1 to the top, googling a lot of non-existing fruit names, but was rescued by a MULBERRY
                                  • Bonnie 🤓14:24 · 2022-07-04T22:27:05.063Z
                                    Yes! We also spotted 'apple' looping from bottom to top which derailed us for a while.
                                  • MARR71 3s · 2022-06-20T17:12:01.641Z
                                    Had to get a hint but finally figured it out. Made me laugh remembering old commercials on Saturday morning cartoons. Yes, I am that old.
                                    • Bbaack 14:07 · 2022-06-20T19:27:28.948Z
                                      I followed my nose to find the tasty froots! Thanks for the cleverly constructed puzzle!
                                      • Cindy Heisler 2s · 2022-06-21T13:20:45.751Z
                                        When I saw Fruit Loops, toucan was my first guess. But it took me until now to figure it out correctly! Nice one, Will!
                                        • rickybillingsgate 🤓3:51 · 2022-06-21T17:40:30.559Z
                                          That was tough - kept think I needed to move entries around to make loops, like PALS / PLEB to make APPLE.
                                          • Julia 🤓8:43 · 2022-06-22T00:21:04.536Z
                                            The mechanism was fun! Found MULBERRY first, and once I had T, A, and N I could backsolve.
                                            • Meta World Peace 6s · 2022-06-23T02:34:44.480Z
                                              I opened a new box of Froot Loops this morning and that must have been my "lucky charm"!
                                              • Jimbo 5s · 2022-06-23T18:34:19.234Z
                                                I always hated word search homework as a kid. In metas I can respect them for the effort required by the constructor in finding words to align just so, to give the solver a challenge in finding the hidden message. This is a good one, and I think we all appreciate your efforts.
                                                • John Williams 🤓11:13 · 2022-06-23T19:02:07.851Z
                                                  My first correct meta! Loved all of it.
                                                  • graham 🤓9:42 · 2022-06-23T20:26:24.425Z
                                                    so fun! solved it with my girlfriend. we had a blast :-)
                                                    • dplass 🤓8:16 · 2022-06-26T13:34:39.055Z
                                                      That was a Kas 5 for me. Never gonna happen.
                                                      • Schmellagator 1:04:08 · 2022-06-27T04:12:26.256Z
                                                        Followed my nose on this one!!!!!
                                                        1A
                                                        Joe who played Tommy in "Goodfellas"
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                                                        Across
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                                                          Joe who played Tommy in "Goodfellas"
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                                                          No ifs, ___ or buts
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                                                          Syrup starter
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                                                          Flexible
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                                                          2016 Disney movie with the song "You're Welcome"
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                                                          ___ Miss
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                                                          Messed up
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                                                          Electric Kia vehicles
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                                                          Scapegoat on a diamond
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                                                          "To ___ not to ..."
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                                                          Put the fear of ___ into
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                                                          Road map
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                                                          2010 album from Ringo Starr
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                                                          Records
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                                                          Hire
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                                                          "... that all ___ are created equal"
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                                                          "___ culpa"
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                                                          Mai ___ (cocktail)
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                                                          French artist who created "Glass tears"
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                                                          Buds
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                                                          Sisters
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                                                          Awards show where artists are given hat trophies, for short
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                                                          Horse's gait
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                                                          Mont Blanc, par exemple
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                                                          Like a nub
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                                                          Jost's partner
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                                                          Daughter's brother
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                                                          Take off the streets
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                                                          Cowboy's "woo-hoo!"
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                                                          Narrative poem
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                                                          Crumbly cheese
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                                                          On edge
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                                                          In medias ___
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                                                          Desert plateau
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                                                          One in a "race"
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                                                          Completely clean
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                                                          One who's going home empty handed
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                                                          King's superior?
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                                                          Back tooth
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                                                          ___ nous (between us)
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                                                          Grad student's goal
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                                                          Like some environments where respirators might be needed
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                                                          Pests similar to no-see-ums
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                                                          Commoner
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                                                          Country with a green, white, and orange flag
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                                                          Houston baseballer, to fans
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                                                          She plays Larry's wife on "Curb Your Enthusiasm"
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                                                          Molotov cocktail, for one
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                                                          Playground retort to "Are too!"
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                                                          Reason a bouncer might turn you away
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                                                          ___ es Salaam, Tanzania
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                                                          ___ cone
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                                                          Do some deep digging
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                                                          ___ mater
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                                                          Fires (up)
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                                                          "Stat!"
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                                                          Brand that sells beans
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                                                          Entice
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                                                          ___ de plume
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                                                          Second group in a tournament, perhaps
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                                                          "___ Given Sunday"
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                                                          Sicilian stratovolcano
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                                                          Attacks, as a lion
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                                                          Put one's finger on, say
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                                                          Nickname for Ernie Banks, since he was emblematic of his Chicago-based baseball team
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                                                          Hawaiian greeting
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                                                          Birth-related
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                                                          Dish that's slowly boiled
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                                                          Mails
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                                                          Weekly show featuring 47-Across, for short
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                                                          Weeks of rest, to football fans
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                                                          Until now
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                                                          Irish broadcaster Holmes
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                                                          Polite but brief response
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                                                          Take back and forth
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                                                          Ensnare
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                                                          Apiece
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                                                          500 sheets of paper
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                                                          ¿Cómo ___?
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                                                          Friend of Dalí
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                                                          Mars' Greek equivalent
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                                                          "That looks like it hurt!"
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                                                          ___-ray disc
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                                                          Lower extremity
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