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To The Left, To The Left

◆◆ · By Adam Simon Levine · Published 2023-09-13T12:16:36.090Z

Meta Prompt
The meta answer is a seasonal greeting.
I first wrote this sweet meta back in 2019 - one of my earliest puzzle attempts, but still one of my favorites. Resharing it here for reasons that will become apparent. I would call it a week 3 or 4 on the Gaffney scale, especially because it requires a certain amount of specific linguistic knowledge. The meta answer is a seasonal greeting.
Hint 1: Pay attention to the beginnings of the starred answers.
Hint 2: The title suggests how you should read the meta answer.
Hint 3: Check the calendar!
Adam Simon Levine knottygrids.blogspot.com
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  • kurtalert solved 2023-09-13T17:30:32.962Z
  • Hector solved 2023-09-13T21:13:39.298Z

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  • Adam Simon Levine constructor · 2023-09-13T12:27:18.194Z
    • kurtalert 🤓10:09 · 2023-09-13T17:36:00.588Z
      Challenging meta! Had to Google my way through... had a feeling we were doing R->L Hebrew, but I'm completely not familiar with the full names of the Hebrew letters, so I wasn't getting the full connection there- but it sort of looked like L'Shana Tova might be right, in a mishmash/anagrammy sort of way.
      • Hector 🤓10:57 · 2023-09-13T21:15:46.944Z
        Tough all the way through, but rewarding. Thanks so much. All of the theme clues are unspecific, so I was sure you were going for things like QUICKSILVER, PAINTBRUSH, GABLE, ABDICATOR, SPITFIRE, STARSHIPS, VOTING, ... and then I couldn't find famous alternative suggestively-named mountain ranges :-) so I uncovered the clues and was glad I did!
        Play today's daily mini crossword
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        King for whom a university is named
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        Across
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          King for whom a university is named
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          Queue before Q
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          Escargot
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          Hydrox knockoff
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          Osso ___
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          Barbera's partner
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          Big head
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          Letter-shaped girder
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          "___ Look Sharp" ("1776" song)
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          Interrupt a dance
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          Composer Bach (not J.S.)
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          Storm center
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          Emil von ___, winner of the first Nobel Prize in Medicine
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          Teller of dumb jokes
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          Children's virus
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          Third-century year
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          School in Bourbonnais, Ill.
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          Utterly forgettable "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" villain
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          Frenzied
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          Axe part
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          Drone: Abbr.
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          Analogue of shoot or darn
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          Dress
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          Capital with an apostrophe
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          Vientiane language
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          It includes juillet et août
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          One who may get a pass
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          Strangely abbreviated units
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          Leonardo's home
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          Scholarly ending
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          Guest bed
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          Gherman ___, second human to orbit the Earth
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          Tip one's hand
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          Latin for "elsewhere"
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          Out of the ordinary
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          Buttonless
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          Adze or zax
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          Sign of the cross
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          Beanpole
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          Humorist Bombeck
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          Grisly fate
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          Wharton deg.
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          *Michelangelo's implement
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          Type of justice
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          Singular data?
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          Frenzied
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          *One leaving the office
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          Country led by Ali Bongo Ondimba
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          "___ by ___, row by row" (Pete Seeger lyric)
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          Chess rating system
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          "___ Perpetua" (Idaho state motto)
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          It might sound in a tornado: Abbr.
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          Tea of life?
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          *WWII fighter planes
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          Steroid type
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          Less warm
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          *2012 Nicki Minaj song
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          *Part of picking a candidate to win (there's an alternate answer)
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          Sewing case
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          Diarist Anaïs
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          Safe havens
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          It may be real
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          *Suggestively named mountain range
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          Bath scents?
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          Arrests
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          Fighter McGregor
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          Director Kazan
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          Feathery wear
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          Stylish society?: Abbr.
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