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Time for a Change

· By Mikey G · Published 3 months ago

Meta Prompt
[Level 3] The answer to the meta is a common 8-word phrase.
I hope all of you are having a great, puzzling end to 2022. May your 2023 be filled with all that is true and good! Best of luck on my last meta of the year!
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  • Hector 3s · 3 months ago
    Fun one, thanks and HNY!
    • Joe 🤓8:38 · 3 months ago
      Thanks, Mikey! Nice one. Happy new year to you!
      • Tom Wilson 8:45 · 3 months ago
        Thanks for all you do on our joyful behalf, Mikey! Wishing you a happy and healthy '23.
        • Carolyn 3s · 3 months ago
          I'm not sure I totally get this one, but I saw enough to get the answer. I'll keep looking for enlightenment! Thanks and Happy New Year!
          • Carolyn 3s · 3 months ago
            Now I see it all. Excellent!
          • Meg 3s · 3 months ago
            Some intense grid perusal involved, which is the perfect accompaniment to the Twilight Zone marathon. Thanks, Mikey.
            • DJB 2s · 3 months ago
              Nice one!
              • whimsy 18:15 · 3 months ago
                I'm glad I didn't have to follow my "trying to make it too hard" trail, after all! Looking for opposites (like old and new) -- 4D
                4DClass of mathematical numbers[-------]
                's REAL with 31D
                31D"Is that a genuine pillow covering?" "No, it's such a ___"[----]
                SHAM
                31D"Is that a genuine pillow covering?" "No, it's such a ___"[----]
                ; 29A
                29ABaby fox[------]
                's KIT with 35D
                35DCubs fan?[----]
                LION
                35DCubs fan?[----]
                ... I know,I know...
                Thank You and Happy New Year, Mikey!!
                • boharr 3s · 3 months ago
                  Thanks for the fun. Happy New Year!
                  • I K Snamhcok 2s · 3 months ago
                    Mikey, my best to you, Ginger, your many Muggle and non-Muggle loved ones, and the Cubs in 2023! (You and your besties I’m not worried about. But the Cubs???)
                    • Laura M 🤓21:23 · 3 months ago
                      That was great! Happy 2023!
                      • KayW 🤓10:47 · 3 months ago
                        That was fun! Thanks Mikey and a very Happy New Year to you and Ginger!
                        • BrennerTJ 🤓1:03 · 3 months ago
                          Happy New Year!
                          • Bbaack 25:32 · 3 months ago
                            Clever! Thanks for the fun, and Happy New Year!
                            • Darth 28:17 · 3 months ago
                              Enjoyed this! Thanks, MikeyG -- and happy new year!
                              • rjy 5s · 3 months ago
                                Clever Mikey, and the requisite number of yucks in the clues 🤣 Thanks!
                                • Alex Sisti 3s · 3 months ago
                                  Very clever!
                                  • Bird Lives 🤓16:05 · 3 months ago
                                    A fun one., and just the right level to begin 2023. Happy New Year.
                                    • DrTom 3s · 3 months ago
                                      Well this one gave me fits!!! I got all the "NEWS" of course but the rest??? I guessed at the answer (given the season) but still had no idea. What finally tipped it was the card game HEM
                                      37AVariety of a popular card game[---]
                                      . I looked on Google several times to no avail and then thought, "hmmm maybe OLD HEM
                                      37AVariety of a popular card game[---]
                                      , a variation of OLD MAID" but when I said OLD HEM
                                      37AVariety of a popular card game[---]
                                      in my mind I heard H OLD EM and then another odd one came to mind, the clue about what I might find in the fridge. I thought it related to SPRINKLE
                                      9DYou probably don't get just a single instance on an ice cream cone[--------]
                                      early on, but now I knew it had to be C OLD ONE. The hardest was an answer I came to accept based on "probably right and I've never heard of it because I am an old guy" GENIE
                                      38AYou might hear it on the radio[-----]
                                      on the radio. Turns out there is a Radio Genie that is a free Internet radio, and I had accepted that, but G OLD EN OLD IE, that is so much better. Fine job Mike!
                                      • Xavier Shay 50:06 · 2 months ago
                                        thank you for this comment, I had no idea what was going on!
                                      • HeadinHome 🤓4:09 · 3 months ago
                                        this was brilliant (right after it was infuriating). well done!
                                        • dplass 5:44 · 3 months ago
                                          I'm such a stupid moron...I never noticed the extra letters in the answers....I just thought they were Mikey being cute and me not understanding his sense of humor (yet again)...
                                          • woozy 30:35 · 3 months ago
                                            Okay.... but "(b)ring out the old (b)ring in the new" are two that would work just as well. I suppose it's a localism that I thought of those two 5 days before I got around to thinking of the other (although to be fair I needed the nudges, which I only saw on saturday, to confirm that there was a tract that was correct and parallel but invisible to mine).
                                            • woozy 30:35 · 3 months ago
                                              Although I should add, I really had no clue until I got the nudges. I saw knewit was a weird answer for fox kiddies but somehow I insisted it should be "kitten" and never considered "kit" and somehow never recognized "knewit" as "knew it" so I, no excuses, didn't get it. Should have, in hind sight. Amazing I didn't.
                                            • Abide 🤓12:19 · 3 months ago
                                              No nudges needed, but happy to see the explanatory comments.
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                                              Night lights
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                                              Across
                                              1. 1A
                                                Night lights
                                              2. 6A
                                                Gives a darn?
                                              3. 10A
                                                Not exactly the best cuisine ever, let's put it that way
                                              4. 14A
                                                "Well, golly, shucks, and other similar exclamations!"
                                              5. 15A
                                                "And make it snappy!"
                                              6. 16A
                                                It might be found on your icebox shelf
                                              7. 17A
                                                Get the vapors
                                              8. 18A
                                                Black is the world's most common
                                              9. 20A
                                                Out-of-date, literally referring to a time "before the flood"
                                              10. 22A
                                                Spanish Armada event
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                                                Passes
                                              12. 26A
                                                What you might need to become a roads scholar
                                              13. 29A
                                                Baby fox
                                              14. 31A
                                                I had a joke about moldy bread to share, but my humor is ___
                                              15. 34A
                                                The party planner couldn't pitch any strikes, but he could throw a ___
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                                                Cosecant's reciprocal
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                                                Variety of a popular card game
                                              18. 38A
                                                You might hear it on the radio
                                              19. 39A
                                                Born: Fr.
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                                                What you should take during my lectures
                                              21. 42A
                                                Mann of "The Simpsons"
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                                                Ruminates
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                                                Shoe designer Blahnik
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                                                How a ballerina might dance
                                              25. 49A
                                                We didn't have enough help at the salon, but we ___
                                              26. 51A
                                                What jerks might give you
                                              27. 55A
                                                In "Dancing with the Stars" routines, this style is often performed with no shoes
                                              28. 58A
                                                When I told too many puns to my neurologist, it really ___
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                                                It really raises a stink
                                              30. 62A
                                                See 46-Down
                                                46DWith 62-across, "Exodus" author[----]
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                                                Job experience?
                                              32. 64A
                                                Kid
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                                                Most audacious
                                              34. 66A
                                                Certain IDs
                                              35. 67A
                                                Tizzies
                                              Down
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                                                Davenports
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                                                Macbeth's title
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                                                Feeling you might get when you can't get a Week 1 meta right away
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                                                Class of mathematical numbers
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                                                Firm appointment
                                              6. 6D
                                                Mort who said "My life needs editing"
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                                                He emerged as "red, all over like an hairy garment" (Genesis 25:25)
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                                                Put aside
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                                                You probably don't get just a single instance on an ice cream cone
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                                                They might be up against the wall
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                                                "THAT IS SO HILARIOUS THAT I'M AUDIBLY AND LITERALLY GUFFAWING RIGHT NOW"
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                                                Artist whose surname sounds like an interjection
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                                                "P" of many acronyms
                                              14. 19D
                                                Piccolo player, perhaps?
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                                                Where, unlike my sparkling online self, I am usually terrified to interact with people, for short
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                                                Packaging cord (I had a pun about this, but I won't string you along)
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                                                If: Sp.
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                                                Help - but not like you should!
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                                                Late Cub Ron whose number 10 was retired
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                                                You need them to drive
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                                                "Is that a genuine pillow covering?" "No, it's such a ___"
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                                                Time I often get up on a Saturday, realizing full well I have to clue all of these entries before noon CST
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                                                Handle found on some appliances?
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                                                Cubs fan?
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                                                What you can deliver, with "the"
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                                                "All the Books" or "What Should I Read Next?"
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                                                Liberty Hardy and whoever her sidekick is that day on "All the Books"
                                              28. 44D
                                                Give heed
                                              29. 46D
                                                With 62-across
                                                62ASee 46-Down[----]
                                                , "Exodus" author
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                                                1/6 fl. oz.
                                              31. 50D
                                                Others: Sp.
                                              32. 52D
                                                Hawaii's "Garden Island"
                                              33. 53D
                                                Young partner?
                                              34. 54D
                                                Cohost of Hall and Schumer at the 94th Oscars
                                              35. 56D
                                                "I'm so odd, I can't ___" (avant-garde millennial's words)
                                              36. 57D
                                                Predicament
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                                                Focal point
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                                                Choler
                                              39. 60D
                                                "___ the season to feed me lots of crunchies" (Ginger Cat's carol - and I think that's every season)
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