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 agoFun one, thanks and HNY!
- Joe 🤓8:38 · 3 months agoThanks, Mikey! Nice one. Happy new year to you!
- Tom Wilson 8:45 · 3 months agoThanks for all you do on our joyful behalf, Mikey! Wishing you a happy and healthy '23.
- Carolyn 3s · 3 months agoI'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 agoNow I see it all. Excellent!
- Meg 3s · 3 months agoSome intense grid perusal involved, which is the perfect accompaniment to the Twilight Zone marathon. Thanks, Mikey.
- DJB 2s · 3 months agoNice one!
- whimsy 18:15 · 3 months agoI'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) -- 4D4DClass of mathematical numbers[-------]'s REAL with 31D31D"Is that a genuine pillow covering?" "No, it's such a ___"[----]SHAM31D"Is that a genuine pillow covering?" "No, it's such a ___"[----]; 29A29ABaby fox[------]'s KIT with 35D35DCubs fan?[----]LION35DCubs fan?[----]... I know,I know...Thank You and Happy New Year, Mikey!!
- boharr 3s · 3 months agoThanks for the fun. Happy New Year!
- I K Snamhcok 2s · 3 months agoMikey, 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 agoThat was great! Happy 2023!
- KayW 🤓10:47 · 3 months agoThat was fun! Thanks Mikey and a very Happy New Year to you and Ginger!
- BrennerTJ 🤓1:03 · 3 months agoHappy New Year!
- Bbaack 25:32 · 3 months agoClever! Thanks for the fun, and Happy New Year!
- Darth 28:17 · 3 months agoEnjoyed this! Thanks, MikeyG -- and happy new year!
- rjy 5s · 3 months agoClever Mikey, and the requisite number of yucks in the clues
Thanks! - Alex Sisti 3s · 3 months agoVery clever!
- Bird Lives 🤓16:05 · 3 months agoA fun one., and just the right level to begin 2023. Happy New Year.
- DrTom 3s · 3 months agoWell 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 HEM37AVariety of a popular card game[---]. I looked on Google several times to no avail and then thought, "hmmm maybe OLD HEM37AVariety of a popular card game[---], a variation of OLD MAID" but when I said OLD HEM37AVariety 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 SPRINKLE9DYou 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" GENIE38AYou 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 agothank you for this comment, I had no idea what was going on!
- HeadinHome 🤓4:09 · 3 months agothis was brilliant (right after it was infuriating). well done!
- 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)...
- 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).
- 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.
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- 1ANight lights
- 6AGives a darn?
- 10ANot exactly the best cuisine ever, let's put it that way
- 14A"Well, golly, shucks, and other similar exclamations!"
- 15A"And make it snappy!"
- 16AIt might be found on your icebox shelf
- 17AGet the vapors
- 18ABlack is the world's most common
- 20AOut-of-date, literally referring to a time "before the flood"
- 22ASpanish Armada event
- 23APasses
- 26AWhat you might need to become a roads scholar
- 29ABaby fox
- 31AI had a joke about moldy bread to share, but my humor is ___
- 34AThe party planner couldn't pitch any strikes, but he could throw a ___
- 36ACosecant's reciprocal
- 37AVariety of a popular card game
- 38AYou might hear it on the radio
- 39ABorn: Fr.
- 40AWhat you should take during my lectures
- 42AMann of "The Simpsons"
- 43ARuminates
- 45AShoe designer Blahnik
- 47AHow a ballerina might dance
- 49AWe didn't have enough help at the salon, but we ___
- 51AWhat jerks might give you
- 55AIn "Dancing with the Stars" routines, this style is often performed with no shoes
- 58AWhen I told too many puns to my neurologist, it really ___
- 61AIt really raises a stink
- 62ASee 46-Down46DWith 62-across, "Exodus" author[----]
- 63AJob experience?
- 64AKid
- 65AMost audacious
- 66ACertain IDs
- 67ATizzies
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- 1DDavenports
- 2DMacbeth's title
- 3DFeeling you might get when you can't get a Week 1 meta right away
- 4DClass of mathematical numbers
- 5DFirm appointment
- 6DMort who said "My life needs editing"
- 7DHe emerged as "red, all over like an hairy garment" (Genesis 25:25)
- 8DPut aside
- 9DYou probably don't get just a single instance on an ice cream cone
- 10DThey might be up against the wall
- 11D"THAT IS SO HILARIOUS THAT I'M AUDIBLY AND LITERALLY GUFFAWING RIGHT NOW"
- 12DArtist whose surname sounds like an interjection
- 13D"P" of many acronyms
- 19DPiccolo player, perhaps?
- 21DWhere, unlike my sparkling online self, I am usually terrified to interact with people, for short
- 24DPackaging cord (I had a pun about this, but I won't string you along)
- 25DIf: Sp.
- 27DHelp - but not like you should!
- 28DLate Cub Ron whose number 10 was retired
- 30DYou need them to drive
- 31D"Is that a genuine pillow covering?" "No, it's such a ___"
- 32DTime I often get up on a Saturday, realizing full well I have to clue all of these entries before noon CST
- 33DHandle found on some appliances?
- 35DCubs fan?
- 38DWhat you can deliver, with "the"
- 41D"All the Books" or "What Should I Read Next?"
- 43DLiberty Hardy and whoever her sidekick is that day on "All the Books"
- 44DGive heed
- 46DWith 62-across62ASee 46-Down[----], "Exodus" author
- 48D1/6 fl. oz.
- 50DOthers: Sp.
- 52DHawaii's "Garden Island"
- 53DYoung partner?
- 54DCohost of Hall and Schumer at the 94th Oscars
- 56D"I'm so odd, I can't ___" (avant-garde millennial's words)
- 57DPredicament
- 58DFocal point
- 59DCholer
- 60D"___ the season to feed me lots of crunchies" (Ginger Cat's carol - and I think that's every season)
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