I can no longer judge if mine are hard or not. I originally was not going to include the asterisks for the themers but that'd make this too difficult. Now I hope it is hard but getable. This came to me when one of us asked "How to you spell…
This is probably really easy to guess but very difficult to solve. However I dropped several meta-META hints so even if you guess try to back-solve the meta-nism. And, yes, you'll probably want to google.
Guess its time to go public with this one as well. This was a very early one of mine. It has quite a few woozyism and it has 4 "painful" clues. They serve a vital purpose and are interesting but they do "hurt". The mechanism is easy but hard to…