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Singular Kindness

■ · By Cory Calhoun

Meta Prompt
Hint: Find a 4-letter noun.
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  • Cory Calhoun constructor · 2024-12-04T06:45:15.441Z
    The meta answer is PITY (Hint: Find a 4-letter noun.)
    Four of the long Across answers end with syllables that sound like plurals of letters of the alphabet:
    FLYINGTRA(PEZE) = Ps
    JEOPARD(IZE) = Is
    STRIP(TEASE) = Ts
    TURNCLOCK(WISE) = Ys
    This is where the puzzle's title, "Singular Kindness" comes into play. When you make those plural letter sounds "singular," you get P, I, T, and Y--which spells PITY, a 4-letter noun meaning "kindness" that satisfies the puzzle's hint.
    • Meg 2s · 2024-12-08T01:29:15.280Z
      Very nice!! I think the clue for 71a should read "Stimulates".
      • Cory Calhoun constructor · 2024-12-08T02:45:30.628Z
        Thanks, fixed!
      • DrTom 3s · 2024-12-30T06:15:54.672Z
        I had to reveal because I got caught in a rabbit hole of my own making. I saw the PEZE, etc. and KNEW that those endings could not be by chance but was SURE that TURNCLOCKWISE was a nudge clue and that I would have to turn the page. Doin that gave me two Ns (Zs turned 90 degrees clockwise and an O but I could not find the other letter that would appear when I turned the grid. Once again, nothing wrong with the puzzle, just the solver.
        Clever concept.
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        Page-ending abbr. usually spelled with an apostrophe
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          Page-ending abbr. usually spelled with an apostrophe
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          ___ Speedwagon
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          "Downton ___"
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          "Hey, you two! Get ___!"
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          Part of B.Y.O.B.
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          Buzz off
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          Kind of dish
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          "___ the fields we go"
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          Map feature
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          Certain circus act above a net
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          Consumption
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          Hunk
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          Chess pieces
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          2025's Super Bowl
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          Allows
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          Put at risk
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          Less friendly
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          Spoil, as one's parade
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          Fine dinnerware
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          Battering device
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          Doctrine
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          Cost of a commercial
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          "Girls" actress Zosia
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          Gypsy Rose Lee's forte
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          Thanksgiving dish
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          Flying start?
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          Canon camera model
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          The first "T" of TNT
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          Many a dad joke
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          Rotation instruction for knobs, often
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          Reservations
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          Laid low
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          Emma Roberts, to Julia Roberts
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          "Jack Sprat could ___ fat..."
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          Genre related to goth
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          Grouchy Muppet
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          Mattress size
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          Hit the jackpot
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          Stimulates, as an appetite
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          End of a threat
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          "Wait until the right moment!"
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          Spelling of "Beverly Hills 90210"
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          Contacting privately via Twitter or Instagram
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          Soda in a "float" drink
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          Decorative pitcher
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          Cloverleaf component
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          Klingons or Vulcans, e.g.
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          Mercedes-___
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          Standard of comparison
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          BBC spy thriller "Killing ___"
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          "Are we there ___?"
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          Asian berry marketed as a "superfood"
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          Brandy flavor
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          Polo alternative
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          Prefix meaning "foreign"
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          Biblical mount
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          Slangy commercial suffix
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          Like some dishes
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          One who prefers tabbies to terriers
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          Honduran house
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          Sharp picture producer, briefly
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          Bug
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          Extinct tusked mammal
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          English prep school
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          Ford product, briefly
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          Avoid
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          Each
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          White wine named for Oman's capital
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          Shows contempt
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          "No kidding!"
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          Big name in alternative news media
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          Ride to the prom, often
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          Desire
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          Et ___ (footnote abbr.)
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          It's bottled in Cannes
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