ANGERED/ENRAGED was the last one I found. I was stuck on ANYHOW/ANYWHO but that seemed a tad inelegant. Anywho... I was looking at MAYHAM and figured I need to backsolve to find the E. Great job, as always!
Tricky! Lots of starting at the grid, wondering what to anagram (if that was indeed the mechanism) and then I saw ANNAGRAM. SO I knew I was on the right track. :-)
Qmark 3s · 2023-05-22T14:39:06.469Z
Nice one, Mikey!
DIS 🤓5:23 · 2023-05-22T17:24:23.300Z
ONE IOTA? I think you know it beta than you let on.
I know that he was a Gamma Thrones fan, and sone of his favorite tunes are Rho Rho Rho your boat, Delta Dawn, Omega me a home, where the buffalo roam...at this point I expect to hear a big Psi.
KayW 🤓7:08 · 2023-05-23T01:32:35.866Z
Impressive construction! and fun to solve tho it took me quite a while to spot the metanism. Thanks Mikey!
Laura M 🤓12:22 · 2023-05-24T18:20:31.557Z
I'm late to the party, but fun solve!
MatthewL 14:37 · 2023-05-24T19:17:56.645Z
Took me a minute, but finally solved (and before nudges!). Very nicely constructed, Mikey!
VERY nice! I had a sneaking suspicion it was anagrams, simply because I know you are a cryptic fan. When I finished I said to myself, "Wow, LEMON is not a fruit I'd associate with seeds, it would be more like grapes, or apples or even melon...hey, wait a minute. Then I just went looking for the very generic clues. After I had M Y H and M I knew what it had to be. Took me a while to change ANGERED to ENRAGED. I never saw the ANNAGRAM (DOH!) and I have to admit I am not sure how ALDA and RICE go together...though I am sure I am going to like it.
Alvibu67 5s · 2023-05-25T01:28:41.011Z
Typical physician, Dr.Tom — you can’t read your writing. It’s AIDA not Alda!
This may well be true, but even so I did not know Time Rice and Elton John had an opera...now I do, all I have to do is wait for it to come up again in a puzzle!
Berto 2:54 · 2023-05-25T01:14:53.017Z
Didn’t see the puzzle posted until late and then worked all day, so won’t be picking up many points this week!!!
Alvibu67 5s · 2023-05-25T01:21:47.964Z
Loved it! How cool are anagrams!? ANGERED, ENRAGED and DERANGE all from the same seven letters! Nice puzzle, Mikey!
ReB 3s · 2023-05-26T02:44:42.507Z
First nudges sent me off looking in the wrong direction, but the 5th nudge set me straight (though I did have do some backsolving to find the anagrams for the last two letters). Have to say also that "total" also led me look for something more complicated.
Bird Lives 3s · 2023-05-26T14:02:04.010Z
I stared at it for a while, but once I saw ANNA and GRAM . . .
Cindy Heisler 2s · 2023-05-28T15:58:20.042Z
I realize I missed the deadline, but I wanted to submit anyway. Great meta, Mikey. Looking forward to the next one.