Gimme an A!

Ben was kindly giving me a break while I had visitors. It is back to me for a while now. Thanks for solving. Before you gave the answer did you say Let Us Spray?

Thank you

So is that a hundred weeks of MEOW? I never kept those statistics so I would not know, but if you have them then I A CENT to you using them an A DOOR your achievement which deserves A CLAIM (ouch).

RATS, you know just the other evening I went in an changed something that also had that problem but never saw RIA (which I could have changed I realize). I guess I thought the symmetry would eliminate distractors, but I had the same problem once before. You get so locked into a certain paradigm that you go blind to some things.

I guess when I was shortening words by removing the A I overlooked something, I would call that A BRIDGE too far

Larry...you trying to take over the punsters job? GREAT post my friend, I was MGing it (ROTFLMAO)

Would that be a BIGGER puzzle? Glad you enjoyed it.

Or the river he lived near, the Zider Zee...so a Calico or a Kitten, I CANNOT get these right. It probably was LOT easier if you remembered Cap'n Rick's puzzle a while back that deleted A's from words. When it first ran I did a Mr. Bill, "Oh NOOO" because I was planning it for the MEOW the next week. I also had one a while ago that added A's to words to form a new anagrammed word. Lots of people solved it but lots of people also DO NOT like anagrams.

Whoops - fixed it now (in Crosshare at least). Thanks for the heads up. Unfortunately spell check doesn't find things like and I did not do a good enough job reviewing the material....perhaps I was waiting to be borne on the wings of angels.

Yes and I corrected my geographical faux pas (and I am quite sure an army of leprechauns is headed to my door) in saying Enya was "British" as opposed to "from the British Isles". I saw Donegal up there at the top of the map and ASSUMED it was Northern Ireland. Faith and begorrah what came over me, probably hitting the Jameson!

Well, the Title plays off a common cheering phrase but is to suggest the mechanism; "Gimme an A". My intent was to have solvers find words that, when A was added, became different words. These were placed symmetrically in the grid (thank goodness because I had a "glitch" with RIA which of course could be ARIA). Those "new" words all could be answers to different clues and the actual answers to those clues, if one takes their first letter, spell TOMIZED. My prompt as to what the answer would be mentioned distribution, and if you do what you did throughout the puzzle to the word you formed from the letters you get ATOMIZED whixh both refers to the creator (me) and a form of wide distribution. Hope that helps you understand what was going on.

Thought I'd relive my college years....glad you were able to struggle through the time warp. Thanks for solving.

VOIDS was one of the meta words though: STERN, CUTE, BASED, SHORE, VOIDS, DELE, MENDS