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Period Pieces

■ · By Cory Calhoun

Meta Prompt
Hint: Find a seven-letter adjective.
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  • benchen71 🤓5:36 · 2024-12-01T06:28:48.933Z
    Clever construction!
    • Cory Calhoun constructor · 2024-12-01T07:23:15.153Z
      Thanks! Took a while to find a word I felt worked thematically with other meanings of "Period" that could be spelled by elemental symbols... ha!
    • Cory Calhoun constructor · 2024-12-01T04:17:46.034Z
      The meta answer is CLASSIC (Hint: Find a seven-letter adjective.) Four of the Across answers start with an element on the periodic table:
      17A. CHLORINETABLETS
      19/34/39A. ARSENICANDOLDLACE
      51A. SILICONVALLEY
      55A. CARBONTAX
      The name of the puzzle "Period Pieces," hints that the answer is made of "pieces" from the periodic table. Change each of those elements--chlorine, arsenic, silicon, and carbon--to their periodic table symbols--Cl, As, Si, and C, and you get the letters in the word CLASSIC, a seven-letter adjective that describes many period pieces (the other meaning of the puzzle's title) that satisfies the puzzle's hint.
      • Abide 🤓9:58 · 2024-12-01T14:20:28.348Z
        Great looking grid. You’ve got a talent for setting.
        • Pair O Ducks 🤓4:54 · 2024-12-01T14:56:22.125Z
          Lovely work. Thanks for posting all these metas for us to enjoy!
          • Darth 🤓18:02 · 2024-12-02T02:51:55.799Z
            Nitrogen-Iodine-Cereum Oxygen-Neon! :D
            • Cory Calhoun constructor · 2024-12-02T04:38:26.014Z
              Carbon Helium Erbium Sulfur!
            • DrTom 13s · 2025-01-01T19:17:11.695Z
              Saw the periodic IDs almost immediately, actually saw too many (Boron, Silver, etc.) but them the actual elements were there and I saw immediately it was going to be a CLASSIC. Thanks Cory, that was FLUORINEDEFIENCY, URANIUMORE, NITROGENMUSTARD!
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                Takes out on loan
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                Kudos
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                Latte alternative
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                Mexico's nickname for the US
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                Pool cleaners
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                With 34- and 39-Across, 1944 Cary Grant comedy
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                Qatar's capital
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                Senegal's capital
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                Color named for a bird
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                Slowly, to a conductor
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                Fidelity.com competitor
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                Wandered about
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                See 19-Across
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                Fast runners
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                Historic period
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                See 19-Across
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                CD predecessors
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                ___ Bora (Afghan region)
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                Alpha's opposite
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                Bit of dust
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                One on the run
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                Wander about
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                High-tech region of California
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                Monetary incentive to go green
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                "Insecure" star Rae
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                "Aaaah!"
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                Frosts, as a cake
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                Wisecrack
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                ___-tac-toe
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                Itty bit
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                Healthful retreats
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                Egyptian cotton
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                Huge-screen film format
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                Discreet email letters
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                "Now it makes sense!"
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                "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-___" (Irish lullaby)
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                Brazilian city, familiarly
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                "I'm a creep, I'm a ___" (Radiohead lyric)
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                Arya's sister on "Game of Thrones"
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                Healthcare benefits giant
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                "Homeland" actress Danes
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                "Closing Bell" network
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                Chat room chuckle
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                "___ we having fun yet?"
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                Hairy "The Addams Family" cousin
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                Enero, por ejemplo
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                "Aaaah!"
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                Have the nerve
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                Nose-wrinkling
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                Danish cheese
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                Historic period
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                ___-la-la
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                Where to find a stud?
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                Rent payer
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                Altar avowal
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                Brief article?
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                US Nav. bigwig
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                Phillies' and Mets' div.
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                "___-nabbit!"
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                Moan
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                Gem weight measures
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                WHAT THIS CLUE IS IN
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                How the year 2063 will eventually appear in film credits
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                US building-designers' org.
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                ___ mode
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                Newspaper section, briefly
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                Big name in early mobile phones
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                Sweater style
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                Figs. averaging 100
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                "Yo!"
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                One-named "Chandelier" singer
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                It may follow a dot
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                Pilot's announcement, briefly
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                Part of a jazz combo
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