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Now Read It Back to Me

· By Mikey G · Published 2023-03-18T17:00:34.829Z

Meta Prompt
[Level 3] The answer to the meta is a 4-letter title. Nudges: https://xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=124441
Hey there! Mikey G here, hoping that you try meta #50 on for size.
This one is a bit avant-garde in that you might argue there are two separate mechanisms here. One was meant to be an Easter egg, but this egg just might give you what you need before perhaps the more hidden mechanism does. (Of course, you’re not required to find both.) Either way, may meta success be yours!
See you next time!
Mikey G
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  • oldjudge 3s · 2023-03-18T17:24:43.322Z
    Good job Mikey--quite the deed
    • Hector 2s · 2023-03-18T18:08:05.001Z
      Thanks! I guess one clue is the lack of Ls in the grid, another mechanism is the clues for the four symmetrically placed 1221-pattern entries spelling ELLE (using the only Ls in the clues). Plus FIFTYFIFTY combined with the roman numeral nudge suggests LL, and there's Anna Wintour, magazine issues and editing... Did I miss anything?
      • Mikey G constructor · 2023-03-18T19:56:36.967Z
        I think that's everything! 1221 with initial clue letters (ELLE), coupled with title, was the main. You could use main spanner for confirmation. Easter Egg was XXV to LL, coupled with no other Ls in the grid (clue for FIFTYFIFTY also gives us a nod to the center in ELLE being LL) or the clues, other than the two required! Wintour just happened to come up somewhat randomly, but it got us the initial E for the clue and is kind of a tie-in, so we'll take it. That was in vogue indeed!
        • Abide 4s · 2023-03-19T03:28:26.902Z
          Ah, now just noticing there are only two Ls in the clues. Nice! What's next, a No-L puzzle for Christmas? ;)
          • Hector 2s · 2023-03-19T04:04:46.350Z
            NOEL was my first submission, followed by LEON.
      • I K Snamhcok 4s · 2023-03-18T18:33:56.982Z
        I see one way to get the answer, but maybe not the other. I’ll keep thinking about it. Thanks, Mikey!
        • boharr 3s · 2023-03-18T18:50:23.023Z
          So did I get the meta or the easter egg?
          • Mikey G constructor · 2023-03-18T19:53:45.926Z
            One of them, haha
          • Joe 🤓9:28 · 2023-03-18T19:47:19.291Z
            Wow! I LLLLLLoved it.
            • Cindy Heisler 2s · 2023-03-18T21:09:13.190Z
              I just noticed the four palindromes and when they didn't give me anything I went to their clues. That's probably not either metanism! Thanks, Mikey!
              • Abide 4s · 2023-03-19T03:23:45.674Z
                I saw the palindromes and brute-forced it from this page https://www.lotsofwords.com/palindromes/4-letters/dictionary (ABBA would have been my second guess). I like your explanation better!
                • Tyrpmom 3s · 2023-03-19T22:21:26.515Z
                  Forgot I was supposed to be two mechanisms. I didn’t even notice the lack of L’s. Really impressive.
                  • whimsy 16:38 · 2023-03-21T20:46:20.560Z
                    Oh, the places I went before going with the palindromes -- namely, that if you read 35A backwards, you get SEUSS that almost goes back to ME. The Cat in the Hat always was quite stylish! Thanks, Mikey! I got a lot of fun out of this!
                    • whimsy 16:38 · 2023-03-21T20:49:14.276Z
                      Oh, and I knew "try puzzle #50 on for size" must have meant something! :)
                      • Carolyn 2s · 2023-03-25T19:39:34.123Z
                        Needed the clues! Thanks for a great puzzle.
                        • Laura M 🤓13:05 · 2023-03-26T00:59:15.901Z
                          Needed the first 3 main mechanism nudges. I... wasn't even close before, when I thought I almost had it :-) Nice puzzle, thanks!
                          • Qmark 4s · 2023-04-03T12:58:38.533Z
                            Late getting to the puzzle...I really should subscribe. No hints required...thanks Mikey!
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                              Ricochet
                            2. 5A
                              Best actress in movies
                            3. 9A
                              Ogden who said "Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up"
                            4. 13A
                              Editor Wintour
                            5. 14A
                              Physics concept proposed in 1977 that, with "I" removed, becomes a nerve fiber
                            6. 15A
                              As far as
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                              Right down the center
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                              Lady's address
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                              DDE's command
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                              Food eaten by Quakers
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                              Egg I'd rather not eat
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                              "You betcha!"
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                              Creative, perhaps
                            14. 26A
                              Brings into the conversation in a surreptitious fashion, for short
                            15. 28A
                              Second word in a 1966 John Wayne movie
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                              My attorney's favorite dessert
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                              Diamond bigwigs, for short
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                              PT separators
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                              Response to "Why do you read so many magazines?"
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                              "Can I tend to your grass too?" "The ___, the merrier!"
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                              First "word" in a doo-wop group's name
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                              He had some "Common Sense"
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                              Serenade
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                              Dog in Garth Stein's "The Art of Racing in the Rain"
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                              Communications artifact from a bygone era (i.e., the 1990s)
                            26. 50A
                              "How's production going on the skateboard park?" "Oh, we've ___ it up"
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                              "Fingers crossed!"
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                              Succor
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                              Erving's sobriquet
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                              Loud sound from a tugboat
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                              XXV (which is one fewer than XXVI, as if that's a hint)
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                              Snake found in the garden?
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                              Check you don't want to receive
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                              Estate document
                            35. 65A
                              Editor's veto
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                              45 and 78, e.g.
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                              BMW competitor you auto know
                            Down
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                              Not out
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                              I know how to make a sweater - I'm such a ___ wit
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                              411
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                              How you might stand
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                              My favorite thing I did at the party
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                              "What's the ___?"
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                              "Yeah, I'm good, thanks"
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                              First name of "The Queen's Gambit" actress
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                              "Once," perhaps
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                              Detached
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                              Bucks
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                              Comfy-cozy
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                              Way off
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                              "Here's the thing..."
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                              What good puns are
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                              Candy show abbreviation
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                              Doctrine (but not about Fido)
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                              ___-chic (fashion aesthetic)
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                              Where things might stick
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                              Do-say connection
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                              Rice, e.g.
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                              It's scary when popped
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                              Western city whose famed nickname is quasi-oxymoronic
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                              157.5 degrees from N
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                              IRS ID
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                              "Act your age, not your shoe size!"
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                              Expeditious
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                              Finding this at the beach is a shore thing
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                              The dwarves but not if Snow White comes to the party
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                              Indignation
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                              If you meet a trio of them, they might be the three Muscat-eers (groan)
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                              Cores
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                              The documentary on wise birds was such ___!
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                              You might take a gander at one
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                              Actor in 1992's "A River Runs Through It"
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                              What certain records may have
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                              God, to Godard
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                              Camped across the country, perhaps
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                              Yoda, for one
                            40. 60D
                              Music genre my mother derides as "beeps and boops": Abbr.
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                              Rx watchdog
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