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"Not a Creature Was Stirring..." (Meta)
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Published over 1 year ago
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Meta Prompt
The meta answer is a Christmas carol.
Read other comments on the puzzle (or post your own) at this link
https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?t=1358
(Nudges/hints are found on pages 3 and 4 of thread)
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Comments
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Dplass
🤓
6:34
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over 1 year ago
Nice! Thanks for the puzzle.
kymike
3s
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over 1 year ago
WSJ meta worthy! Fun one.
boharr
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over 1 year ago
Oh I struggle with phonetics. Always a challenge for me.
michaelm
🤓
1:53
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over 1 year ago
Thanks as always Peter and Happy Holidays!
Capn Rick
4s
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over 1 year ago
Fun one Peter! Thank you and happy holidays!
DIS
🤓
7:01
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over 1 year ago
Nicely done!
Carolyn
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over 1 year ago
Very nice! Merry Christmas and thanks for the puzzle.
Meg
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over 1 year ago
Nice one!
whimsy
🤓
16:13
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over 1 year ago
Fun! I was first fooled by the clueing for
35D
35D
It's said to make you smile
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, and then from there I continued to be fooled into looking for M-O-U-S-E throughout the grid!
Bbaack
17:59
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over 1 year ago
Very nice, thanks for the timely puzzle!
Laura M
🤓
14:04
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over 1 year ago
Cute!
wendy walker
5s
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over 1 year ago
Peter, this was brilliant. Thank you!
I K Snamhcok
3s
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over 1 year ago
Loved it! MC&HNY!!
Abide
constructor
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over 1 year ago
Your name seems familiar... :)
Hector
3s
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over 1 year ago
Very nice. Thanks, Peter!
minimuggle
🤓
11:44
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over 1 year ago
Happy Holidays to all
MamaEllen
2s
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over 1 year ago
Fun one! Merry Christmas
Qmark
7s
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over 1 year ago
Thanks!
Cindy Heisler
2s
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over 1 year ago
Great puzzle. Thanks, Peter!
Mike D
🤓
6:23
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over 1 year ago
Very nice!
Abide
constructor
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over 1 year ago
And huge thanks for all you do Mike!
Mike D
🤓
6:23
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over 1 year ago
William D
10:29
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over 1 year ago
Nice puzzle thanks!
noneuclidean
🤓
12:54
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over 1 year ago
put in
night
at first and was momentarily confused about why it wasn't accepted... good one!
THC
🤓
4:12
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over 1 year ago
Happy Holidays!
Play today's daily mini crossword
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Operatic roles recorded by Callas (1953) and Moffo (1977)
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Operatic roles recorded by Callas (1953) and Moffo (1977)
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Pricey ice chest
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Baby billy
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*Season when most Christmas shopping occurs
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USPS info
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Longoria or LaRue
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Barbershop sharpeners
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*Toymaking, for the Clauses, e.g.
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Beavers leave them
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Handheld console before Nintendo DS (hidden in "Pong ball")
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Saint, to Kanye
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With
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51A
See 23-Across
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, Christmas carol that is NOT the meta answer
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Queen who courted Solomon
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Buck, in retro slang
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Way past the expiration date
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Checked the box
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Make like a mooch (or pooch)
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Biloxi Shuckers, for one
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*Holiday sparkler?
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Words in a Twitter bio, perhaps
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Birthplace of MLK
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Like easy-to-get meds
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Decathlete's many
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Film crew assistant
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Image consultants, for short
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With 51- Across, Christmas carol that is NOT the meta answer
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Put to good ___
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Place for a bud or stud
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Untouchable Eliot
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*"I've been good Santa, ___!"
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Burst into flames
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Helping hand
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Loafer's bottom
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*"Wait...are those reindeer hooves?"
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"Jenny from the Block" singer, to fans
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"___ queen!"
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Didn't bolt
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Prof.'s helpers
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Not to be ___ (phrase describing someone going the extra mile)
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Wandered off
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Brothers in 2021 headlines
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Intensifies, informally
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Atomic symbols for tin
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Start of Flintstone's yell
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Foreign minister Shevardnadze known as "the face of Perestroika"
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Joe Burrow scores 'em
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Biometric ID method seen in spy movies
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Special quality for detail
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ER drippers
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County prosecutors, for short
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Part of a protestor's chant
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" ___ while they're hot!"
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Publish private info online
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Capital of Tasmania
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"Don't ___ jerk"
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High USN rank
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Bald baby
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Honor roll stat
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It's said to make you smile
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Company that distills half the world's cognac
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Being tried, in lawyerspeak
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Gas treatment brand
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Laugh syllable repeated after "hardy"
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Major Madrid daily
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Result of not eschewing the fat
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One surrounded by raised glasses
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Exotic dancer Lili St. ___
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Bloats
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Karaoke Night shout
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Hush-hush org.
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Funk icon Isaac (the other one)
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The fifth pillar of Islam
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Deep fryer liquid
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Burnt-crisp link
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They, in Calais
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