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Gee, I'm A Treat

· By Lydia Roth & Phil Chow · Published by Pair O Ducks · Published 2024-08-05T12:00:19.531Z

Meta Prompt
The meta answer is something you might treat yourself to after solving.
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  • Pair O Ducks publisher · 2024-08-05T12:00:19.531Z
    Thank you for solving! Astute solvers may notice a slight inelegance with the puzzle which we think is also a bit of interesting trivia: Cheez-It crackers are technically rectangles (measuring 1.02" x 0.94"), though they are often believed to be squares. In our defense, they did start out as perfect 1" x 1" squares when they first hit the markets back in 1921. Even their official website (https://www.cheezit.com/en-us/products/cheez-it-original-crackers-product.html) says "square shape." Nonetheless, we hope you enjoyed solving and weren't tripped up by that detail. Now, go treat yourself!
    • Bird Lives 3s · 2024-08-05T14:31:23.102Z
      Yeah, I noticed that too since I never eat Cheez-its without my micrometer near by.
      • LarsCaine 🤓20:43 · 2024-08-05T18:19:09.858Z
        lol!
    • Alex Sisti 2s · 2024-08-05T12:28:36.068Z
      Snacks are directly responsible for my shape, that's for sure!
      • Hector 3s · 2024-08-05T13:37:33.604Z
        Very fun (as Biden likes to say, that's not hyperbole, folks)
        • Bird Lives 3s · 2024-08-05T14:32:13.034Z
          Wonderful. And now for some single malt Goldfish.
          • Philip Chow 4s · 2024-08-05T15:12:19.323Z
            I love the fishes cuz they’re so delicious! 🐳
          • Meg 2s · 2024-08-05T14:57:24.212Z
            That was fun!
            • kurtalert 🤓3:23 · 2024-08-05T15:22:35.152Z
              Hah... got to SCOTC and figured it out. And... now I know that a Pringle is a Hyperbolic Paraboloid! That'll come in handy soon, I'm sure of it.
              • MatthewL 🤓8:13 · 2024-08-05T15:56:25.613Z
                That was great! Had to Google COMBOS because I had no idea what shape they were, but the rest were easy (other than PRINGLES -- but once you had SCOTC it was pretty obvious). And now I know what a hyperbolic parabola is. Who knew? Thanks for the puzzle, guys!
                • Carolyn 3s · 2024-08-05T15:51:54.974Z
                  Excellent!
                  • imontoo 2s · 2024-08-05T17:06:57.309Z
                    Clever title!
                    I cannot buy Pringles…I could literally eat an entire full-size can of those things!
                    Thanks for kicking of the week!
                    • Philip Chow 4s · 2024-08-05T20:17:26.952Z
                      once you pop you can't stop!
                      the title was inspired by a math joke: what did the acorn say when it grew up? (gee, i'm a tree) 😂
                    • Darth 🤓9:13 · 2024-08-05T17:38:28.972Z
                      Lol. Cute idea. Loved it! 💕
                      • woozy 15:49 · 2024-08-05T18:04:48.185Z
                        Holy f@@@
                        I entered that as a JOKE!
                        • woozy 15:49 · 2024-08-05T19:37:14.538Z
                          Actually I shouldn't have been that surprised as when a silly rabbit proves to be slightly more and more reasonable ("Geez, the snacks really do seem to have well defined shapes rather than amorphous snack shapes" and "Gee, SC(R/O) is a legitimate group of letters and if Scotch was my joke Pringles really shouldn't fall into a shape beginning with H so nicely". And of course, there was nothing else we could do with the treats.
                          Still. I was very surprised when it was correct.
                        • KayW 🤓8:50 · 2024-08-05T18:19:29.074Z
                          OMG what an absolutely delightful aha moment!
                          • Mwoychick 🤓10:11 · 2024-08-05T19:21:40.605Z
                            I'll drink to that. I was distracted by all the Pokémon red herrings
                            • HeadinHome 🤓1:24 · 2024-08-05T18:40:22.789Z
                              Had to google that pringles shape! I would have said elipse or maybe circle (and I was thinking Tubes for combos), but SCOTTE / SCOTTC is not a thing. I assume the C for combos is cylinder? Loved this puzzle, and the gentle clue at center for the meta. Now I need some munchies…
                              • Gutman 1s · 2024-08-05T21:41:49.227Z
                                Oban 18 neat
                                • damefox 🤓5:05 · 2024-08-05T22:50:22.874Z
                                  Fun one! I got stuck for a minute wondering if it was relevant that Cheez-Its are in fact Cheez-It, singular, as you mention above, while all the other ones I think are written in the plural on their label, but I abandoned that quickly. I mean really who says Cheez-It? They're Cheez-Its. Lots of fun clues in here, and a very satisfying meta!
                                  • anopheles 🤓7:33 · 2024-08-06T00:34:22.940Z
                                    15 minutes on the meta, which is slower than I'd like, but it is what it is - I almost put OREO as a hail mary.
                                    The combination of 1a/5a was cute and sent me on a distinct rabbit hole. Once I (slowly!) remembered that PRINGLES have a proprietary shape, I was able to FIGURE it out... sorry.
                                    • ELSavage 🤓8:41 · 2024-08-06T17:26:28.133Z
                                      This was right in my wheelhouse, since I'm a math teacher and have often had the phrase "Gee I'm a tree" run through my head. Like others, I had it at SCOTC, but wondered if there was a simpler H than what it turned out to be. Now I'm definitely hungry for lunch.
                                      • Sharkicicles 1s · 2024-08-06T22:26:48.340Z
                                        I had never heard the original pun so I went down the rabbit hole of looking for Gs in the grid. Once the pun was spelled out for me it was a quick one. I’m really in awe of the thinking behind this one. What an odd observation to make and then turn into a meta!
                                      • Sharkicicles 1s · 2024-08-06T19:29:19.518Z
                                        I made these the other day… they kind of taste like an extreme cheddar goldfish. A+++ will make again.
                                        • Sharkicicles 1s · 2024-08-06T19:17:01.878Z
                                          Needed a nudge but now that I see it… very clever!
                                          • Dave C 2s · 2024-08-07T00:48:46.078Z
                                            It took a minute to figure out that the title was Geometry and I was thinking that the answer would be a shape...
                                            • michaelm 🤓8:48 · 2024-08-07T21:21:40.805Z
                                              Excellent title, cluing, fill and meta you two! You've never really googled until "what shape are pringles?" is typed into that box. With that knowledge, now even more of a 33D lol. Thanks for the MMM!
                                              • DrTom 22:13 · 2024-08-08T13:57:06.009Z
                                                Darn it! I posted yesterday but obviously did not Save the post because neither comment I made is here. I hate it when I do that. Lovely puzzle that I at first had no idea on. I tried the letters of the treats, the companies who made them, adding G to the name, etc. Then I said the title a few times, then it hit me and then I went down a real rabbit hole:
                                                BUGLES -> ANGLES BU or AN
                                                COMBOS -> RHOMBUS RHU OR COO
                                                PRINGLES -> TRIANGLES TA or P
                                                It was when I was trying to force somehting for Doritos that I thought 'well is it some sort of angle because Doritos are a triangle'...OMG and Cheez-its (whose white cheddar variety should be banned because it is more addictive than drugs) is a square! What a clever and original idea. Now I have to try some Scotch with each of them.
                                                Thank you for the puzzle, feel free to toot your own horn - or bugle - about it.
                                                • whimsy 🤓3:23 · 2024-08-09T19:50:22.692Z
                                                  Well, that took me long enough! It didn't help that I didn't get the "Geometry" joke but instead could only picture the Keebler elves, working away in the Hollow Tree bakery! This was excellent, Lydia and Phil!
                                                  • THC 🤓4:05 · 2024-08-10T11:15:17.527Z
                                                    The most creative meta I’ve seen for awhile!
                                                    • Mikey G 🤓2:57 · 2024-08-12T05:28:57.013Z
                                                      Now I'm hungry...for more puzzles, of course!!!
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                                                        Nudge
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                                                        Garfield's least favorite day of the week: Abbr.
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                                                        "Are you ready kids?" "___, Captain!" "I can't hear you!" "___, Captain!"
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                                                        "Rhyme Pays" rapper whose name sounds like a summertime drink
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                                                        Windy City "L" org.
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                                                        Insect in a biblical plague
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                                                        Treat that was originally marketed as "baked rarebits"
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                                                        Treat that we put on our fingers to make "finger hats" as kids
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                                                        Mozart's "The Queen of the Night," for one
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                                                        Like some whiskeys
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                                                        Purveyor of "Strands" and "Connections": Abbr.
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                                                        Pulmonologist's concern
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                                                        Treat that Pepperidge Farm created after discovering that their Naples cookies would stick together in the package during shipping
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                                                        Leisure activity on a lake
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                                                        Like some dissertation defenses
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                                                        Agile
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                                                        Belly button type that was added to the most recent edition of the Scrabble dictionary
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                                                        Ed whose song title "Shape of You" might interest a geometry teacher
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                                                        Maroon 5's "___ Will Be Loved"
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                                                        Drop a vowel or syllable in pronunciation
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                                                        Canned
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                                                        Plumbing problem
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                                                        Birthplace of Lego bricks
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                                                        Treat that did a collab with Taco Bell to launch the Nacho Cheese Locos Tacos
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                                                        Blinds pieces
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                                                        Vessel for cooking minestrone
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                                                        Tuna sometimes seared and served with a sesame seed crust
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                                                        "Time for me to bounce!"
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                                                        Treat that's the official cheese-filled snack of NASCAR
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                                                        Treat that can be used to make duck lips
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                                                        Stand-up comic Boosler or pioneering percussionist Jones
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                                                        Fair-hiring initials
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                                                        Home of the Viking Ship Museum (reopening in 2027 after renovation!)
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                                                        Favorite "subject" for many elementary school students
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                                                        ___ Faire (occasion to watch a jousting match)
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                                                        "How do I love thee? Let me count the ___" (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
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                                                        "___ or it didn't happen!"
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                                                        Dos al cubo
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                                                        Squirrel away
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                                                        Like the sunshine for a spotless mind, in a movie title
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                                                        Canadian Olympic swimming champion Summer (who shares a name with Canada's national apple!)
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                                                        Éowyn portrayer Miranda with a palindromic surname
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                                                        Twangy
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                                                        Animal lacking pigmentation, like Moby Dick
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                                                        "Back so soon?"
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                                                        Heart scan, for short
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                                                        Word sung after the ball drops
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                                                        WWI battle river
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                                                        Site of many crafty deals
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                                                        Singer Malik that split from the boy band One Direction
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                                                        Color named after a certain gemstone
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                                                        RR stop
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                                                        Bike with a small engine
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                                                        "Who's the best? Oh yeah, it's me!"
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                                                        Pig ___ (ancay ouyay eadray isthay?)
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                                                        Address
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                                                        Map within a map
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                                                        Greeting that literally translates to "you good"
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                                                        Techies and Trekkies, stereotypically
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                                                        Dino friend of Buzz and Woody
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                                                        Animals known as the "welcoming committee" of the Galapagos
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                                                        Likely outcome if you let me visit the local animal shelter (I don't neeeeeed more cats...)
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                                                        "Slide into my ___" (I had no idea what this meant when I first heard it and thought it stood for Doc Martens, so in my head the phrase was analogous to "walk a mile in someone else's shoes")
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                                                        John who voiced Lord Farquaad in "Shrek"
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                                                        Pharaoh who is the subject of Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias"
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                                                        Chestnut-colored horse
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                                                        "Fabulous!"
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                                                        Big name in computers
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                                                        Something one might really dig
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                                                        Big name in computers
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                                                        "I think that I shall never see / a billboard lovely as a ___" (Ogden Nash)
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                                                        Character played by Idina Menzel who sings "Let It Go"
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                                                        Depend (on)
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                                                        "___ Zapatos" (Spanish edition of Maribeth Boelts' children's book "Those Shoes" which teaches kids the difference between needs and wants)
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                                                        "Til next time!"
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