Call Letters

haha half-way there the first time. I shoulda looked at the puzzle number. KOOL! (tho I'd never heard of it. But google helped out)

Very kool indeed

Fun! Also kool or is that kewl?

Thanks for playing it cool and easy this time, Mikey!

I thought this was going to wander into the NATO alphabet, what with starting with PAPA and all. 32A, at first I thought was a BTO knockoff: C-c-cover-vi... but that thought didn't last long.

Answer: KOOL 105

Explanation: The four horizontal entries each cue us in to a single letter: STRIKEOUT (K, as strikeouts are indicated on scoresheets), RAYFORMDS (X - RAYVISION was another contender here), POTASSIUM (K, for all your periodic table and banana enthusiasts), CCCOVERVI (300/6 = 50, so L - don't we just love Roman numeral math?). The four letters, in order, spell out KXKL; a quick search on the Google Machine will find these are the call letters for Denver's KOOL-105, the answer to the meta.

Clever. Thanks, Mikey.

Phew. Totally whiffed on the beverage - but this came to the Kool aid of my meta ego.

#2 had me tripped up for a little bit. Did a lot of Googling for ray form lol

This gave me a problem until I did the math correctly...

I thought the answer was going to be Zeisel. (Helmut was a big classic rock fan.)

Never heard of it but google was helpful! Must give this one a listen!

Rayform DS had me scratching my head until I parsed it correctly. Nice and (dare I say) easy? Even though I'd never heard of the station? Thanks as always, Mikey!

I was trying so hard for it to be KDKA.. with Mike Lange phrase... Michael Michael motorcycle.... and he beat him like a rented mule

Kool to know your Denver connection! I lived in Lakewood for 9 years, so this station is familiar. Love that numeric tie-in! :D Thanks, Mikey.

I didn't get #2 initially. But when I discovered that KMKL was K-LOVE, my wife's favourite station, I had to submit it, even if the character count was off! ;-)

Whiffed this one thinking STRIKEOUT was X. I don't think I've ever changed my radio dial away for my local NPR station (unless I'm travelling and finding another NPR station!)

Well, I knew it had to be a radio station that broadcast on frequency 105 . Plan B was to just look up a list of all of those if I couldn't parse RAYFORMDS. (Rayfrom ds? Rayform d s? Rayf or mds? So hard to see that one.)

Thankfully Mr. Google knew what I did not. My radio stations were all AM and mostly out of Buffalo, NYC or Philly. As for my FM stations, they are all NPR affiliates. Luckily I got Sirius about listening and now can get TED talks when I drive or walk (after MANY years I finally sprang for earbuds, now I wear them even when not listening so I can feign not hearing).

Thanks for the softball Mikey

From the Mississippi Delta we split our radio dial between Wolfman Jack (WLS) and Spider Harrison 15- LAC (WLAC Nashville).

Enjoyed it...thanks Mikey!

Got to it late, but got after googling the call letters. Cleverly done.

So I ONELOOKed w?kl and there were gazillions of christian stations. RAY FOR MDS should have been the easiest but I kept thinking "Gamma? Laser? Delta? Ray Kroc?"

Hey! OneLook is KOOL-ENO backwards!

Incredible milestone, Mikey--gotta put it on your CV!

Wow! Four Clues that could only be filled in by crossing. Got stuck on #2 (still not sure how DS fits into it), but #3 was right in my wheelhouse. #4 was fun for a math guy, too.