Jake’s Mini Cryptic #59

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• Womble 🤓4:56 · 2024-09-13T09:33:55.564Z

  Thank you Jake

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  • Jake A constructor · 2024-09-13T18:15:58.225Z

    Thanks, Womble!

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• Aaron Riccio 🤓3:13 · 2024-09-13T02:00:32.055Z

  My faves were 1A and 3D; I didn't follow the parse for 2D.I think [Northern Michigan] is a clue for U (as in university), which is a two-stepper for me, but then is [change of heart] meant to swap the last and first letters of [Top seed] into TOSPEED? If so, I'm still not sure where the first P comes from. It is fun, though, to try and figure it out!

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  • dilly 🤓3:35 · 2024-09-13T12:25:28.348Z

    North part of Michigan is the Upper Peninsula, which is basically always called the UP (by Michiganders, not sure how widespread it is outside the state).

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    • Jake A constructor · 2024-09-13T18:10:05.597Z

      Thanks! Yep, this is it. I’m not a Michigander myself and I think it is a fairly well-known term.

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  • Jake A constructor · 2024-09-13T18:15:44.006Z

    Thanks, Aaron! Yeah, the idea is to swap the first and last letters of TOP SPEED, which are in the middle when the words are smushed together. A little stretchy but worth it!

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• dilly 🤓3:35 · 2024-09-13T12:30:02.677Z

  Really liked the down clues especially, but everything is good. In 2D, I don't totally get [change of heart] for [Top seed]->TOSPEED, though.

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  • Jake A constructor · 2024-09-14T00:17:30.078Z

    Thanks, dilly. I was kind of picturing the words smooshed together and then switching around two adjacent interior letters. And then UP for Northern Michigan (the Upper Peninsula).

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