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• wordsforthebirds 2:03 · 2024-12-13T01:37:51.696Z

  Not sure most of these actually make sense

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  • AuLeaf 🤓40s · 2024-12-13T23:01:39.387Z

    The answer to 1D is AVIS and the answer to 4D is YELL, but the gimmick of the italicized entries is to move the "top" letter of a down entry "down" to the bottom — so the first letter moves to the end, making AVIS into VISA and ELLY into YELL.

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• Iyagovos 🤓34s · 2024-12-13T02:28:59.260Z

  Impressive!

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• Kent D 🤓13s · 2024-12-13T03:02:37.729Z

  I'm agreeing with wordsforthebirds to a certain extent. I get now, after solving, that VISA and ELLY convert to AVIS and YELL, but Daily Minis don't usually have these alternative spellings or whatever they're termed. Definitely a challenging puzzle, but it would have been better over a cup of caffeine tomorrow morning than over a 3rd beer this evening

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  • AuLeaf 🤓40s · 2024-12-13T23:10:33.128Z

    Understandable — Kieran has been doing a lot of these gimmicks lately so I've been careful to read the titles on their puzzles! I will say that if there's an italicized/asterisked clue, or shaded/circled cells, there is probably some sort of gimmick in the puzzle or maybe a meta.

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• ForeverJung 🤓1:08 · 2024-12-13T12:53:04.646Z

  Good one, kieranjboyd!

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• Cory Calhoun 🤓37s · 2024-12-13T03:57:09.159Z

  Show of hands: of those confused by the puzzle, did you read the puzzle's title before solving? :)

  (That's rhetorical! Cheers.)

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  • Bodegas 🤓12s · 2024-12-13T14:48:21.352Z

    Seems like it should be "Bottoms Up"

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    • Cory Calhoun 🤓37s · 2024-12-13T16:46:42.917Z

      I interpreted it as "Put the word's TOP DOWN at the end." I think both titles could work!

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• AuLeaf 🤓40s · 2024-12-13T23:02:26.702Z

  Nice one! I love "windicator"

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