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· By Mikey G

Meta Prompt
[Level 3] The answer to the meta is an Olympic event.
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  • Mikey G constructor · 2024-07-27T17:00:51.575Z
    Answer: TRIATHLON
    Explanation: Nine of the clues for entries contain three triplets of the Olympic medals: gold (THEM, RUE, IAN), silver (CARP, KTTUNSTALL, SHEL), and bronze (TALL, EPOCH, RUNS); taking their initial letters spells out TRICKSTER, which is...wait a minute. That's not the name of an Olympic event! What gives, Mikey G? Yes, YOU are a trickster, but that doesn't fit the meta prompt! Another fake answer?! Let me rethink this...hmmm...
    Well, if you actually take the letters of the entries that correspond to the placement of the metals: gold = 1, silver = 2, bronze = 3, you will keep the TRI from TRICKSTER but then will get ATH from the silver entries and LON from the bronze entries. These concatenate to form TRIATHLON, an answer that actually fits the prompt and, thus, is our meta answer. (RUE and IAN being down was just for them to fit in the grid; for either the trick answer or the actual answer, top-down order still works!)
    • Hector 5:30 · 2024-07-27T17:17:49.257Z
      I guess you couldn't number the puzzle 123, huh? Thanks for a clever one!
      • DIS 🤓5:13 · 2024-07-27T17:48:57.283Z
        Loved the red herring. After running in circles and spinning my wheels, I found my place and it went swimmingly from there.
        • lbray53 3s · 2024-07-27T18:11:00.191Z
          Great puzzle! TRICKSTER indeed!
          • Mikey G constructor · 2024-07-29T14:24:45.847Z
            It's what I do best, haha.
          • boharr 3s · 2024-07-27T19:10:56.805Z
            Pun and done. Thanks, Mikey.
            • Carolyn 3s · 2024-07-27T19:32:43.706Z
              Enjoyed it !
              • woozy 9:59 · 2024-07-27T21:13:54.333Z
                Very clever. Could figure out what "Yes, two of these in one puzzle.." meant, but 29A was the entry that cleared it for me.
                • Darth 🤓8:57 · 2024-07-27T21:30:53.555Z
                  If at first you don't succeed, tri, tri ...athlon! ;)
                  • hoover 3s · 2024-07-27T21:23:28.188Z
                    Well done, you trickster you!
                    • Joe 🤓6:14 · 2024-07-27T20:03:03.116Z
                      If you Google "olympics trickster" you find Olympians with the nickname "trickster" in gymnastics and in skateboarding, my first two guesses.
                      • whimsy 🤓7:42 · 2024-07-28T02:22:26.089Z
                        Yup. I fell hard for skateboarding too!
                        • Mikey G constructor · 2024-07-29T14:24:32.795Z
                          I was worried something like that could happen!
                          • KayW 🤓17:52 · 2024-07-29T19:37:29.784Z
                            Me three!!
                        • MatthewL 🤓6:57 · 2024-07-27T20:37:12.796Z
                          Fun one! Never saw the red herring, as I just assumed the gold, silver, bronze thing was the placement of the letters. Thanks for the puzzle, Mikey!
                          • Mikey G constructor · 2024-07-29T14:30:32.838Z
                            Yeah, I figured if you went that route, you avoided a trap you didn't even realize was there in the first place!
                          • benchen71 🤓6:48 · 2024-07-27T23:06:33.141Z
                            Excellent puzzle!
                            • Philip Chow 🤓6:38 · 2024-07-27T23:53:02.538Z
                              Great puzzle didn’t see the alt answer until your explanation 🥇🥈🥉
                              • Cindy Heisler 2s · 2024-07-28T12:08:16.288Z
                                After falling for trickster and several wrong guesses, I finally found the correct path. Thanks, Mikey.
                                • Eric Porter 10s · 2024-07-28T02:02:57.223Z
                                  I saw 'trickster', then thought of the method to get 'triathlon'... but for some reason I gave up without writing out all 9 letters. Then I looked at the Olympic sports and saw it. Thanks!
                                  • ELSavage 🤓4:40 · 2024-07-28T02:35:14.502Z
                                    Great puzzle! My first pass was incomplete (wait, that's the wrong kind of football for the Olympics), so I ended up doing some backsolving that totally avoided the red herring - other than 39D, which did dissuade me from trying to stay symmetrical.
                                    • kurtalert 2s · 2024-07-28T13:23:11.717Z
                                      Tricky tricky!
                                      • Qmark 3s · 2024-07-28T15:08:41.684Z
                                        Another great meta...thanks Mikey!
                                        • DrTom 10:54 · 2024-07-28T13:34:55.243Z
                                          Stupid me, I entered this yesterday and misspelled it both times! I finally went back and thought, "OK, what might Mikey do?". I looked at words with some designation of first and second and third (though there were no thirds), I wondered if I could turn it into TRACKSTAR, I looked for anagrams all to no avail, then I thought "what if the medal told the position of the word!!!" and got TRIATHLON. "But I did that already!" and then looked back to see that I had tried to make it TRIATHALON. NIce to have finally crossed the finish line, but I guess I am just part of the peloton and won't wear the yellow jersey (I know, I know, different event but...)
                                          Thanks Mikey
                                          • Steve M 27:02 · 2024-07-28T21:13:01.941Z
                                            Nice Olympic themed meta to kick off the games! Thanks!
                                            • Tyrpmom 🤓14:38 · 2024-07-28T23:10:41.801Z
                                              You got me! Fun.
                                              • Abide 🤓8:56 · 2024-07-28T23:57:47.018Z
                                                Guess I’m on to your tricks, I went straight to the answer. Another numerical coincidence? Sept. 4, 1994 – At the 103rd IOC Session in Paris, triathlon was officially included on the Olympic Program starting with the Sydney Olympic Games of 2000.
                                                • Mikey G constructor · 2024-07-29T14:31:24.886Z
                                                  Yep, if you're onto my tricks, I'm fine with that! That might be the wildest numeric coincidence of all - completely unintended!!
                                                • JHSeeman 4s · 2024-07-28T19:56:17.391Z
                                                  Wow....the puzzle maker is the king of Tricksters.....Great puzzle/Meta
                                                  • Dave C 3s · 2024-07-29T02:34:11.306Z
                                                    Was stuck on trying to figure out what sport trickster implies when the lightbulb went on. Agree with others that this is impressive construction to have both words spelled out.
                                                    • Mikey G constructor · 2024-07-30T01:28:03.168Z
                                                      When I saw KT, I was like, "Oh my goodness, please tell me KT Tunstall" had "silver" in a lyric. So pumped to find that!
                                                    • KayW 🤓17:52 · 2024-07-29T19:36:14.918Z
                                                      TRIATHON, you lil TRICKSTER you! Took me a while to get eveything in place LOL.
                                                      • Bird Lives 9s · 2024-07-31T02:54:33.137Z
                                                        Tricky indeed, especially with epee being part of the pentathlon.
                                                        • Mikey G constructor · 2024-08-03T16:14:05.618Z
                                                          Yeah, a little bit of a red herring there!
                                                        • HeadinHome 🤓51s · 2024-08-01T00:01:05.949Z
                                                          The perfect pastime as I half-watch the Olympics. Thanks!
                                                          • Julie bookworm 🤓8:32 · 2024-08-02T02:32:02.758Z
                                                            Wow, that's an impressive metanism to include a red herring like that!
                                                            • Mikey G constructor · 2024-08-03T16:13:57.360Z
                                                              One of these days, RED HERRING will have to be the answer!
                                                            • Meta World Peace 3s · 2024-08-03T12:34:12.265Z
                                                              Thanks for the bonus ÉPÉE fill (my sport back in college)! Wow, Team USA's fencers are having are lighting it up in Paris.
                                                              • Mikey G constructor · 2024-08-03T16:13:49.022Z
                                                                So much fun to watch! Lots of great moments - the emotion always moves me!
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                                                              "There's gold in ___ thar hills!"
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                                                              Across
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                                                                "There's gold in ___ thar hills!"
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                                                                They were a Breakout company once, har har
                                                              3. 10A
                                                                Dynamic start?
                                                              4. 11A
                                                                "The Taming of the Shrew" setting
                                                              5. 12A
                                                                Silver ___ (type of fish)
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                                                                Bygone days
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                                                                Skater Midori
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                                                                It's basically pointless
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                                                                Cast
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                                                                Glitch
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                                                                Second word in title of song with lyric "My, my, how can I resist you?"
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                                                                One who's out for a buck?
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                                                                She wrote the lyric "Everything around her is a silver pool of light"
                                                              14. 28A
                                                                Baby docs
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                                                                Logical leader? (Yes, two of these in one puzzle...)
                                                              16. 30A
                                                                "A Boy Named Sue" author Silverstein
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                                                                Hunky-dory
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                                                                After putting milk in my coffee, I have to ___ down
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                                                                "Don't Bring Me Down" band
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                                                                Jim : John :: Dwight : ___ ("The Office" roles)
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                                                                Like Koenig's bronze sculpture The Sphere
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                                                                Holocene, e.g. (period that contains the Bronze Age)
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                                                                Short race, for short
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                                                                "You guessed her age?" "Oh, yeah, I ___ her once"
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                                                                Sprints at a beach, like a bronzed lifeguard might
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                                                                Understood
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                                                                Tract I want to go to moor often
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                                                                Glitch
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                                                                An expert janitor will ___ up the competition!
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                                                                Each
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                                                                Some are 41-Across
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                                                                Book ends?
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                                                                "Golden Girls" actress McClanahan
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                                                                First name of the author who wrote "Dr. No" and "Goldfinger"
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                                                                J.R. or Patrick
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                                                                Bird jokingly said to "eat" the comments in the New York Times' Wordplay column
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                                                                Co. whose Instant Messenger was a staple of my high school days
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                                                                "Weren't you planning on opening a new salon?" "Nah, plans didn't ___"
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                                                                "Have ___!" ("Make yourself at home!")
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                                                                Round enders, briefly
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                                                                "If you're asking me...," in texts
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                                                                Author name-checked in the Crash Test Dummies' "Afternoons and Coffeespoons"
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                                                                Word that becomes its numeric homophone when its middle letter is changed to a "W"
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                                                                Jousting implement
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                                                                Neo's portrayer
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                                                                Iverson who was once upset to be "talking about practice" in a famed press conference
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                                                                "You thought I made eggs? The ___ on you!"
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                                                                How many shows are broadcast
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                                                                "A ___ Herring Without Mustard" (Alan Bradley novel)
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                                                                MLA alternative in formatting
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                                                                Rocky hill that's also the name of a science fiction imprint
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