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Hearing Things

◆ · By Bird Lives · Published 2022-01-10T15:28:07.033Z

Meta Prompt
The answer is a five-letter word meaning how you might put things together.
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  • Laura M 🤓11:09 · 2022-01-10T18:24:05.387Z
    Good one!
    • Abide 🤓10:54 · 2022-01-10T18:20:31.468Z
      Great Meta
      • Hector 3s · 2022-01-10T19:08:18.070Z
        Very nice; thank you!
        • boharr 3s · 2022-01-10T20:07:57.420Z
          Sneaky and fun!
          • I K Snamhcok 3s · 2022-01-10T20:27:36.234Z
            Fun!
            • Chaddog 16:09 · 2022-01-10T20:44:25.468Z
              Nice puzzle, Jay, thanks!
              • Tyrpmom 28:31 · 2022-01-10T21:06:00.701Z
                Very Professional!
                • DIS 🤓6:40 · 2022-01-10T22:52:41.140Z
                  Really slick -- lots of fun. There were some ambiguities as you mentioned, but once I had the mechanism they didn't pose a problem.
                  • Bbaack 20:05 · 2022-01-11T00:45:13.572Z
                    Nice! It was a pleasant start to the week, thanks!
                    • BarbaraK 5s · 2022-01-11T03:36:11.174Z
                      Nice! Now for the second meta - trying to find the ambiguities you mentioned
                      • goodness gracious 24:56 · 2022-01-11T05:52:34.958Z
                        Awesome puzzle!! Can someone please explain how the meta was discovered?
                        • rjy 3s · 2022-01-11T15:35:35.722Z
                          Nice, Jay! Got caught for way longer than I care to admit in some rabbit holes but a clever mechanism to get to the answer, and another clever one that didn't!
                          • Holmes 16:11 · 2022-01-11T19:38:24.496Z
                            Even knowing the answer, I can't figure out the meta. What am I missing?
                            • Bird Lives constructor · 2022-01-11T21:51:29.317Z
                              Tomorrow, I'll post hints on the x-muggles forum (here: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?t=1391) and on Saturday the solution and explanatiom.
                              • Holmes 16:11 · 2022-01-12T16:51:59.272Z
                                I get now that some of you like to ponder these things for a week or so.
                            • THC 🤓4:23 · 2022-01-13T14:44:32.194Z
                              Fun one!
                              • Wendy S HeadinHome 🤓1:44 · 2022-01-13T15:30:47.280Z
                                Since these can only be read by those who have solved, someone help me know where the final letter “T” comes from! I had B in that spot… TI+BASIL (THAI BASIL) AND TI+BAR (TIE BAR). I don’t see a T-word that works. (Submitted the correct answer just because the first 4 letters suggested it.) Fun puzzle! I was in a deep rabbit hole because of pairs of words in clues, and all FIVE of those pairs were things you could hear: SONGS(1A, 25A), BIRDS(16A,61A), PIGGISH (pig) (47A,27D), DRUMMER/S(51A,66A), and FILM(64A,39D and 44D). Obviously there were some glitches in the system (words not exact, one had 3 entries), but it seemed unlikely to be coincidence because there were FIVE of them… though of course these led to nothing like a good answer…
                                • BarbaraK 5s · 2022-01-13T17:40:49.885Z
                                  53D Sum total
                                  As I recall, that was the first one I noticed that.
                                • rickybillingsgate 🤓5:54 · 2022-01-13T22:33:36.931Z
                                  nice mechanism!
                                  • whimsy 🤓13:42 · 2022-01-14T00:20:05.394Z
                                    Whew! Thank you, Bird!
                                    • prog plus chat 🤓14:48 · 2022-04-02T20:17:14.258Z
                                      Very nice, what a challenge!!!!
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                                      Term of endearment often in love songs
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                                      1. 1A
                                        Term of endearment often in love songs
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                                        Shore bird
                                      3. 9A
                                        None of the above on forms
                                      4. 14A
                                        1017 acres, for Golden Gate Park; 8180 acres for Stanford
                                      5. 15A
                                        Home to 4.5 billion
                                      6. 16A
                                        Christmas birds for the table
                                      7. 17A
                                        Inflation concern
                                      8. 19A
                                        Chill!
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                                        What parents are often doing to 1 Across
                                      10. 21A
                                        Take care of
                                      11. 23A
                                        Fills _______
                                      12. 24A
                                        Howard of Hollywood
                                      13. 25A
                                        Platinum songs
                                      14. 28A
                                        Homer's best-known creation
                                      15. 29A
                                        Lincoln
                                      16. 31A
                                        On second thought
                                      17. 33A
                                        "Greetings" letter-writer letters
                                      18. 34A
                                        Take five
                                      19. 36A
                                        The other side
                                      20. 37A
                                        It's coming in West Side Story
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                                        aka Superman
                                      22. 43A
                                        Curry, lettuce wraps, satay, etc.
                                      23. 44A
                                        Heavy-sounding Zeppelin
                                      24. 47A
                                        Piggish
                                      25. 49A
                                        Pfizer vaccine starts with it; Moderna ends with it
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                                        ______ Linda, CA
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                                        What drummers keep
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                                        Summer on the Riveria
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                                        Wrapper's delight
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                                        Prefix for "graph" or "synthesis"
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                                        Giving to the church
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                                        Herb in pad kra pao
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                                        "I went to _____ fair, the birds and the beasts were there."
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                                        Simple dress style or Ms. Saarinen
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                                        "Man of _____" 1934 film
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                                        Measure of interest
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                                        Drummer on records with the most sales
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                                        Service do-overs
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                                        Pissed off
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                                        African trees
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                                        Girls named after Grande
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                                        They sing like Ethel Merman
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                                        Kotto of "Homicide: Life on the Street"
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                                        Put on weight
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                                        Always Ready military branch, abbr.
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                                        Falsehood
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                                        Prop for Will Rogers
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                                        Fairytale baddie
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                                        What a 1 Across might be doing at six months
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                                        Noted teacher's pet in 12th-century Paris; household hint-giver of 20th-century America
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                                        Conductor ___ -Pekka Salonen
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                                        Wally Shawn in "Toy Story"
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                                        Disencumber
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                                        Crosswords favorite composer ("Music for Airports," record I actually own).
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                                        Make good as new
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                                        Frank-N-Furter Curry
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                                        Piggish home
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                                        Injection site for vaccines, usually
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                                        Objection
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                                        Stimpy's co-star
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                                        Suffix for seemingly endless events
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                                        Really pissed off
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                                        Long in the tooth
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                                        Best Foreign Language Film of 2014 and well worth seeing
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                                        Agency where Putin got his start
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                                        ". . . of orient ____"
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                                        Enters with a splash; jazz classic "Lester _____"
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                                        TV/film production company (The Waltons, ALF, Dallas)
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                                        Give off
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                                        Just hung there
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                                        "Are we having fun ____"
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                                        Author Jhumpa ("The Interpreter of Maladies")
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                                        The final tally
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                                        RR stop
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                                        Yellow spread in a recent WSJCC
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                                        Milk source
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                                        McKellen and Fleming
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                                        Boat location for Isaac
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                                        The Greatest
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                                        Charlemagne domain, initially
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