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Top of the Morning

■ · By Pandora's Blocks Meta Crosswords · Published 2022-07-24T13:00:48.488Z

Meta Prompt

The answer to this week's meta is something that could be said instead of "Top of the morning!"

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Comments

Joe 🤓6:12 · 2022-07-24T13:39:56.655Z
Rise and shine to you, as well!
Hector 3s · 2022-07-24T13:12:24.775Z
Thanks and slainte
edestlin 🤓5:19 · 2022-07-24T13:18:42.878Z
Oops! I forgot to check the box! Fun puzzle, thanks!
oldjudge 3s · 2022-07-24T13:33:06.060Z
Fun puzzle although there may be some confusion with the horizontal AMs.
- MajordomoTom 12:38 · 2022-07-26T04:20:57.689Z
  Top of the mornings, not adjacent to them. :)
  - Ergcat 17:13 · 2022-07-28T18:26:20.885Z
    Well, my first thought was to find the 2 letters “on top” of the horizontal “am”s because that’s how I write & read “am”, horizontally. Got the letters “Gicate”. So then I looked at the vertical “am”s.
Flinty Steve 3s · 2022-07-24T14:00:59.884Z
Nice puzzle - happy Sunday!
schmidzy 🤓9:56 · 2022-07-24T13:48:36.611Z
Great puzzle, Will! Nice start to the morning.

(Side note, I think there's an extra a in 11D?)
- MajordomoTom 12:38 · 2022-07-26T04:21:37.438Z
  Google it
  - schmidzy 🤓9:56 · 2022-07-26T23:02:20.825Z
    Looks like it's been corrected by now
    MajordomoTom 12:38 · 2022-07-28T01:13:58.652Z
    must have been - I didn't see it.
wendy walker 3s · 2022-07-24T13:47:03.784Z
Thanks, Will! Fun puzzle!
Louis D 5s · 2022-07-24T14:01:53.837Z
I like the callback to last week’s mechanism.
boharr 4s · 2022-07-24T13:50:42.315Z
Fun
THC 🤓3:54 · 2022-07-24T14:17:43.257Z
“Over easy!” this Sunday morning.
BarbaraK 7s · 2022-07-24T14:36:40.766Z
Very smooth solve. I appreciate the elegance of having all the theme entries symmetric.
Bbaack 19:15 · 2022-07-24T14:27:04.517Z
Nice construction, thanks for the fun meta!
Qmark 3s · 2022-07-24T15:01:46.807Z
My favourite way to start Sunday morning...thanks Will !
Carolyn 7s · 2022-07-24T15:46:10.623Z
Fun!
Sfull411 🤓4:18 · 2022-07-24T16:03:41.116Z
Thanks, Will!
woozy 16:19 · 2022-07-24T17:00:20.872Z
Fun. But maybe you should have put a few weeks between this and last weeks as the mechanisms are so very similar.
Wendy S HeadinHome 🤓9:15 · 2022-07-24T17:24:05.559Z
Well that was easy breezy for a relaxing Sunday! Thanks for the fun.
Bird Lives 11s · 2022-07-24T17:42:02.022Z
"Top of the morning" was definitely not the way the Selective Service began draft notices.
- dplass 7:34 · 2022-07-25T21:06:07.875Z
  Whoa. That came out of nowhere...is there a relationship to the puzzle?
  - Bird Lives 11s · 2022-07-26T02:52:17.776Z
    Draft notices dating back to World War II began: "Greeting. You are hereby ordered to report for induction. . . " (I had it wrong; I thought it was "Greetings," but it's just "Greeting.")
    dplass 7:34 · 2022-07-26T22:54:11.665Z
    The draft having been gone for nigh 50 years, not too many of us might know that (including this 53-y.o.)
    Bird Lives 11s · 2022-07-27T23:44:17.068Z
    "Greetings" was the title of a 1968 film about a guy trying to avoid the draft. In 1968, I think that most people seeing that title would have guessed what the reference was.
    
    The director was Brian de Palma (you might know of him), and the main character was played by Robert De Niro (ditto). They were not at all famous then. It was the first or maybe second feature-length film for both of them. Unlike a lot of De Palma's later films, it did not take itself seriously.
Laura M 🤓10:53 · 2022-07-24T17:49:34.888Z
Fun!
MARR71 3s · 2022-07-24T17:41:12.860Z
Very fun start to the week!
DebbieC 🤓9:34 · 2022-07-24T18:32:34.905Z
Lovely puzzle! Almost walked away, thinking I couldn't do it, but something caught my eyte . . . Isn't that always the way? Can't believe I'm first here.
Jeff G 6s · 2022-07-24T21:40:24.676Z
Good way to start a Sunday. Top of the morning! Thanks!
I K Snamhcok 2s · 2022-07-24T23:16:16.767Z
And to you, Will, as well. Quite nice!
rickybillingsgate 🤓6:48 · 2022-07-25T01:45:14.108Z
SJMcK 1:04 · 2022-07-25T03:42:34.201Z
Good night!
DrTom 22s · 2022-07-25T14:46:07.793Z
Another nice one Will. You are trying to make me believe I am good at this...well I know better! But I do like a Pandora solve when I am flailing with everything else!
dplass 7:34 · 2022-07-25T21:04:58.353Z
Sheesh took me long enough. Nice meta. I love the symmetry.
MajordomoTom 12:38 · 2022-07-26T04:20:10.940Z
Up and at 'em, but only after my second cuppa.
hoover 🤓14:47 · 2022-07-26T16:38:31.788Z
Scratched my head for a couple days, then the mechanism popped into my head in the shower this morning.
whimsy 🤓11:47 · 2022-07-27T14:41:37.822Z
Nice! Thank you, Will (And it really is a fine AM by the time I got to your puzzle!)
William D 🤓7:30 · 2022-07-28T00:14:17.078Z
Thanks!
David Higgins 🤓9:23 · 2022-07-28T03:20:43.141Z
Fun puzzle and meta!
Meta World Peace 3s · 2022-07-28T04:20:41.121Z
After FROOT LOOPS a few weeks ago, the title here made me think of leprechauns and Lucky Charms cereal. Cheerio, Will!
Mr Tex 🤓9:37 · 2022-08-01T00:26:01.351Z
How is GREETINGS the answer? I wish you'd publish the mechanism to get it, because I don't see it.
- Pandora's Blocks Weekly Meta Crossword constructor · 2022-08-01T13:28:27.794Z
  I email out solution explanations to subscribers of my mailing list every week - you can join the mailing list and browse older solutions at PandorasBlocks.org!
- Caroline 🤓5:07 · 2022-08-08T20:09:08.518Z
  >Everything you needed to solve last week's puzzle was in the title, "Top of the Morning". There were 9 "mornings" in the puzzle, represented by the letters AM in the down answers, and taking the "top" of those mornings (the letters immediately above them) yielded the meta answer: GREETINGS. And "greetings" could of course be used instead of "Top of the morning".

Play today's daily mini crossword

Although

Across

1A
Although

7A
"Picture this"
14A
Hare hunting breed
15A
B6 or D3
16A
Cough drop brand that sounds better when yodeled
17A
The window to your aisle, say
18A
Restaurant dish modification, for example
19A
Leader's grad. degree
21A
Bartender in "Ted Lasso"
22A
Required info on many college apps.
25A
Caper
27A
They control the waterworks
30A
Basketball
35A
Military masses
36A
Gibbon or bonobo
38A
Attention ___
39A
Show up
40A
16th most common rd. name in America
42A
Bit of Mexican money
43A
Swears to God?
44A
___ Paulo, Brazil
45A
Call upon
47A
First inning of "free baseball"
49A
Makes a mockery of
51A
Buzzing with activity
53A
"___ Como Va" (Santana song)
54A
Tigers of upstate N.Y.
55A
All you ___ eat buffet
57A
___ Genevieve, Missouri
60A
Dance popular in the 90s
64A
Commander's "relax"
67A
It might follow an all-nighter
68A
Gibbon or bonobo
69A
Knock boots
70A
Puts one's name in the hat, say

Down

1D
Spell starter
2D
Hawaiian necklaces
3D
Ancient tabletop game
4D
A boaster might have a big one
5D
Not well
6D
Sports squad
7D
"Nobody knows the trouble ___ seen"
8D
South Florida city where "Dexter" takes place
9D
Include with an email
10D
Up for anything
11D
"___ Believer" (The Monkees song)
12D
Small annoyance
13D
Springfield to Boston dir.
17D
Southern California city with a famous pier
20D
Breathalyzer's stat.
23D
Forgiving Father
24D
Refreshing drink
26D
Recipe amts.
27D
Implied
28D
Wear away
29D
Employs
31D
Coastal raptor
32D
Commonly used password
33D
Farfalle, fusilli, and fettuccine
34D
Schnoz
37D
Suffix with kitchen- or vign-
41D
Ultimate
46D
Aduba of "Orange is the New Black"
48D
Stylist's creation
50D
Shane McClanahan current leads the MLB in it
52D
Sauna mist
54D
Most recent Super Bowl champs
56D
"What's in a ___?"
58D
Nicholas II of Russia, for one
59D
Swimmers that power the Christmas tree at an aquarium in Utah each December
60D
Ryan of "When Harry Met Sally"
61D
Body spray brand
62D
Many a mouser
63D
Bill ___, The Science Guy
65D
It might fade in the fall
66D
CPR pro