I Can't Even! (Meta)

Cool construction!

Nice little twist!

Good one, Ben! Had me going for a while trying to get 10 letters from the 4 long answers… got the first step but then what? Aha! do “it” again!! Puzzled by last “s”, was that just the middle letter of “I’d say” ? Or first letter of “sass”? Thanks, Ben! Have fun camping!

Really nice construction, Ben!

Very nice. And excellent title!

That’s really cool!

That was excellent -- thanks!

Great construction, fun one, thanks.

Neat. WTF to OhWait.... moment.

Had to backsolve E-C- though. Got stuck on MINCE and thinking "Dang, that Ben. Doesn't he knew CARVE is to cut in broad strokes with an implied final shape and MINCE is to chop tinily with implied reduce to atoms" but I should have had more faith.

Very well done construction

Loved it! Thanks, Ben!

"I am speechless. Speechless! I have no speech." Brilliant!

LOL couldn't find the match for 24A initially, so I spent like 5 minutes hunting for the AxCx word before I realized that A was supposed to be an E :D

Loved it...thanks Ben!

And yes I am indeed! Wow what a construction. Fantastic meta, Ben!

To self: "Pay attention to the title!" Very, very nice, Ben!

Very clever, Ben! Needed the slightest of nudges to get started, but finally it all became clear.

How ODD - nice repeat on the mechanism.

Very nice. Like others, I was stalled by the 4/10 disparity. I was pretty sure what the answer was, but it took a while to backsolve, and when I did get it, I was at a loss for words, so to speak.

What the! Great construction, thanks for the fun!

Same remark as Woozy. Also, if you will allow a nitpick, I thought it was a tiny bit inelegant to clue 28a's RAD with the term RADian. Or was that a throwback to last week's "Unnecessarily Repetitive" puzzle?

Very nice! I love it when my guess works out to be the right answer. Cool mechanism.

Clever mechanism! Lots of fun.

The puzzle could have been improved if there was only one synonym for carve. Maybe it couldn’t have been helped but I think MINCE should have been replaced somehow. Great idea otherwise.

Well that describes my feeling about the construction! Amazing Ben. You may be up a lazy river this weekend but getting to the end of the solve was a hard row for me. I tried everything with odd except what I was supposed to. It's maddening because I saw DINNER in DJINNINFEAR a ways back but it did not click. I wanted so much to make CLAWREVIEW (drop the first odd letter) LAWREVIEW. Then I used all of the odd numbered entries, then all of the odd clues (i.e. every other one (1,3,5,7...) hoping to spell out an instruction. I needed a nudge to get there but I am glad I did not throw up my hands in defeat, it was a very nice puzzle.

Well done mate. Enjoy your SNAGS

Beautiful construction! Fun puzzle!!

Great idea for the meta and excellent execution in the construction. Thanks, Ben.

Thanks, Ben!