[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 · over 2 years ago
Fun one, thanks and HNY!
Tom Wilson 8:45 · over 2 years ago
Thanks for all you do on our joyful behalf, Mikey! Wishing you a happy and healthy '23.
Carolyn 3s · over 2 years 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 · over 2 years ago
Now I see it all. Excellent!
Joe 🤓8:38 · over 2 years ago
Thanks, Mikey! Nice one. Happy new year to you!
Meg 3s · over 2 years ago
Some intense grid perusal involved, which is the perfect accompaniment to the Twilight Zone marathon. Thanks, Mikey.
DJB 2s · over 2 years ago
Nice one!
whimsy 18:15 · over 2 years 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's REAL with 31DSHAM; 29A's KIT with 35DLION... I know,I know...
Thank You and Happy New Year, Mikey!!
boharr 3s · over 2 years ago
Thanks for the fun. Happy New Year!
I K Snamhcok 2s · over 2 years 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 · over 2 years ago
That was great! Happy 2023!
KayW 🤓10:47 · over 2 years ago
That was fun! Thanks Mikey and a very Happy New Year to you and Ginger!
BrennerTJ 🤓1:03 · over 2 years ago
Happy New Year!
Bbaack 25:32 · over 2 years ago
Clever! Thanks for the fun, and Happy New Year!
Darth 28:17 · over 2 years ago
Enjoyed this! Thanks, MikeyG -- and happy new year!
rjy 5s · over 2 years ago
Clever Mikey, and the requisite number of yucks in the clues Thanks!
Alex Sisti 3s · over 2 years ago
Very clever!
Bird Lives 🤓16:05 · over 2 years ago
A fun one., and just the right level to begin 2023. Happy New Year.
DrTom 3s · over 2 years 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. I looked on Google several times to no avail and then thought, "hmmm maybe OLD HEM, a variation of OLD MAID" but when I said OLD HEM 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 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 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 · over 2 years ago
thank you for this comment, I had no idea what was going on!
HeadinHome 🤓4:09 · over 2 years ago
this 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.