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Seven and Seven

◆◆ · By Mikey G

Meta Prompt
[Level 2] The answer to the meta is found around the house.
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  • Meta World Peace solved 2024-12-21T02:23:51.755Z
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  • Bbaack 9:24 · 2024-12-14T20:23:07.995Z
    Doh! This took mi awhile. Nice one!
    • Meg 7:17 · 2024-12-14T20:46:27.394Z
      Yay!
      • Dave C 9s · 2024-12-14T22:44:25.105Z
        It took us a while also. Saw all the notes quickly, but didn't see that all were used twice except for those two. I think it was harder than a week 2.
        • boharr 3s · 2024-12-14T23:41:00.613Z
          Clue for 19a confused me.
          • Pair O Ducks 🤓3:01 · 2024-12-15T04:43:05.652Z
            Sofa so good! Thanks for the double puzzle weekend, Mike!
            • Mikey G constructor · 2024-12-14T18:00:55.845Z
              Answer: SOFA
              Explanation: The seven notes DO, RE, MI, FA, SO, LA, and TI take center stage for this meta. Per the title, we should have seven of them - and the same seven again! Five of these are twice in the grid, but only two - FA and SO - appear once. And you might have a map of Burkina FASO in your home! But the more apropos answer would be SOFA. Sofa, so good!
              • benchen71 5s · 2024-12-15T22:24:52.718Z
                Too hard for me! I found the notes very quickly, but the title suggested adding them, and the alternate title suggested subtracting them. I never stopped to count how many times each one appeared!
                • Mikey G constructor · 2024-12-16T02:13:58.515Z
                  I have underestimated again, but I promise #119 is a Week 1.5/2!!
                • ELSavage 🤓7:37 · 2024-12-16T01:59:38.406Z
                  Tough grid, but I resisted the temptation to Google anything. Once I had 28A, the solution quickly followed.
                  • woozy 4:32 · 2024-12-18T20:30:48.777Z
                    Okay. I am never going to be ever solve a "count the number of times a thing appears and take the ones that only appear once" puzzle. Never, ever, ever ever.
                    So the answers not a SCALE?
                    • woozy 4:32 · 2024-12-18T20:32:00.942Z
                      For three days I assumed 28A was a reference to the abbreviation N.B.
                      • BarbaraK 2s · 2024-12-19T00:55:53.700Z
                        Found the notes and tried playing them on a keyboard. Unsurprisingly, it didn’t sound like anything:). But while trying, I noticed the two times each except for so fa.
                        Very clever!
                        • Meta World Peace 4s · 2024-12-21T02:27:09.779Z
                          I couldn't see TIRE for the longest time! Playing off the Spanish elsewhere in the grid, I guess you'd say it threw me.
                          • Qmark 🤓10:19 · 2024-12-21T11:43:32.383Z
                            nice aha moment! Thanks Mikey!
                            • Darth 🤓6:15 · 2024-12-21T16:12:18.164Z
                              Lol. I did this one too quickly and got FA and LA... so I was like, fa la la la la... putting "boughs of holly" around the halls of the house? Second look, and I saw there were two LAs on the left side and no SO... Now, I'm off the couch! Thanks, MikeyG.
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                              Yen
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                              Across
                              1. 1A
                                Yen
                              2. 5A
                                "I know all of the elements! I'm ___-ant about it!"
                              3. 9A
                                Kunis of "Black Swan"
                              4. 10A
                                Professional FC Barcelona footballer Ansu
                              5. 11A
                                Experts at iambic pentameter are ___ at poetry (sort of a pun, haha)
                              6. 12A
                                Some round ends, briefly?
                              7. 13A
                                This, in Tijuana
                              8. 15A
                                Fair-hiring inits.
                              9. 16A
                                Very high mark with very low effort, say
                              10. 18A
                                Kind
                              11. 20A
                                Big ___ (the effervescent David Ortiz's nickname)
                              12. 22A
                                This verb took its toll LOL
                              13. 24A
                                Mulligan
                              14. 26A
                                Dog whose creator says he was inspired by a car commercial
                              15. 27A
                                Girl in "The Old Curiosity Shop"
                              16. 28A
                                Take ___ (alternate title for the puzzle - but use the 2-letter version for this meta!)
                              17. 29A
                                Terrier breed that's a homophone for the firmament
                              Down
                              1. 1D
                                Rapscallion
                              2. 2D
                                "You have to change another flat?" "Yeah, but I ___ of it"
                              3. 3D
                                The sewing circle was a ___ group!
                              4. 4D
                                Until, in Uruguay
                              5. 5D
                                Astern (a stern what?)
                              6. 6D
                                Glimpse furtively at your gifts ahead of time ("Wow! It's a math!")
                              7. 7D
                                Chief Whitehorse, e.g.
                              8. 8D
                                Ingredient often mixed with dashi soup stock
                              9. 14D
                                Kin to an adder ("But 'subtracter' doesn't fit!")
                              10. 17D
                                The sewing circle (again?) could tell you a lot of ___
                              11. 18D
                                When I recite the periodic table, ___ a gold star!
                              12. 19D
                                Side, in Seville (no, these aren't meta-related!)
                              13. 21D
                                How doodles are often drawn
                              14. 23D
                                Good start?
                              15. 25D
                                "Bravo!"
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