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Meta Prompt
The meta answer is a breakfast food.
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  • benchen71 2s · 2024-06-28T06:35:13.358Z
    Fun one! Thanks, Ricky.
  • boharr 8s · 2024-06-28T18:55:38.728Z
    Thx
    • KayW 🤓7:31 · 2024-06-28T20:21:20.587Z
      Fun one, thanks! (and now I'm hungry...)
      • omnilynx 10:26 · 2024-06-29T00:09:08.280Z
        I partially guessed and now can't reconstruct how it was supposed to be solved. I see the letters are third from last place in every themed answer except the last, but I can't see how they should have been found.
        • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓3:15 · 2024-08-23T18:08:06.887Z
          I revealed because after I saw the theme entries (not hard, given that Ricky labeled them) I had no idea. After reading these comments, I see that the title ("Start the Day Off Right") is a big clue. Each of the five entries has a common three-letter abbreviation for a day of the week (Sun, Wed, Mon, Sat, Tue) at the end, with an extra letter inserted. Those extra letters, in label order, spell out "grits".
        • kurtalert 🤓5:51 · 2024-06-29T04:04:31.861Z
          Oh, this was awesome. Initially I was going down the path of finding scrambled breakfast items in the theme answers. HUEVOS is in chekhovsgun, as is sunchoke. TOAST is in photostat. NUTRIENTS is in internetuse. But I struggled like crazy to find ANYTHING in yellowred.
          Fermion kept taking me to some combination of FE and IRON, and then in conjunction with NUTRIENTS, I started looking for periodic elements to start/finish the words... nope. Argh. Those were some very convincing rabbit holes. Walked away, sat down just now for one last look before bed... boom. Immediately got it.
        • Qmark 12s · 2024-06-30T18:15:13.796Z
          Loved it...thanks!
          • MatthewL 🤓7:26 · 2024-07-01T18:30:13.114Z
            Love the "take the title literally" metas. And, love grits -- especially with lots of butter and cheese. Thanks for the puzzle!
            • Abide 🤓9:53 · 2024-07-13T21:21:14.316Z
              Wrote down the themers in order but couldn't see the days in there. But knowing you are a fellow son of the South, I found the "grits" and then backsolved to Step 1.
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                Put into words
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                Items for trade?
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                Stocking fillers for bad kids
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                United
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                Bit of tomfoolery
              6. 16A
                Irk
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                Gateway Arch home, briefly
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                Shorthand for a certain Russian playwright's belief that "one must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep" (1)
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                Punjab city
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                Perform the task expertly
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                "Trust Exercise" novelist Susan
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                Form's first blank
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                Peter of reggae
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                Pop like never before?
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                Draw
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                Propelled a scull
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                Symbol of change
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                TDs are worth six
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                One more than due
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                Subatomic particle class named for the 1938 physics Nobel winner (3)
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                "Yeah, right" sound
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                LAX listing
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                Highway ramps, often
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                Many a garden statuette
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                Comedian Davidson
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                Sway unsteadily
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                Group whose logo looks the same in a mirror
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                Clear the blackboard
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                Dr. Pepper, e.g.
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                Linger aimlessly
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                Glides
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                Web surfing and the like (5)
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                Young boy
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                Getting on in years
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                Flutist, e.g.
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                Imitate
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                ___ voce (quietly)
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                Image-sharing site studies show is terrible for teenagers, to teenagers
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                Bike / swim / run race
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                Letters of distress
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                Hill worker?
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                Color that's not quite orange but getting there (2)
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                Engine rpm gauge
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                Like me when reporting yet another DSL outage to AT & T, usually
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                Former SNL cast member Cheri
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                Compare
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                It often starts in Sept.
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                Prosecco alternative
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                Where the work is taking place
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                Non-Hispanic white person, in slang
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                1938 victor over Schmeling (this year's two appearances in this puzzle's clues being merely an interesting coincidence)
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                Electropop instrument
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                Running by itself, as a machine
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                Helper
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                Big bill
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                Crux
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                Comedian Tracee ___ Ross
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                Charge for a spot
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                Appalachians, e.g.
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                More in need of rain
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                CPR expert
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                Early document copier (4)
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                Under control
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                She teams up with the Princesses of Power
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                Short-termer shadowing a professional
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                Bird abode
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                Obvious
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                China shop ensemble
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                Assumed name
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                Drum beaten by beatniks
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                Went defunct, in slang
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                Be part of the cast of
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                Courses in bowls
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                Thus
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                "Will be," in Spanish
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                Prefix with center or genetics
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                National Poetry Mo.
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                Innocuous set of multicultural initiatives currently serving as a right-wing dog whistle (abbr.)
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