Although snow is not a "thing" in Florida I know it is in many places where Muggles reside and solve. Therefore this puzzle seemed very timely. I am not going to venture a guess on the difficulty. I, of course, think it is patently obvious what I want, but then I wrote it.
So, solve carefully, remember who wrote this and watch out for things purposely designed to confuse.
Difficulty: ? (no more than Persian)
Nudges Friday, reveal Tuesday
Thanks to my Testers: BarbaraK, whimsy and, Hector (who unintentionally was a tester but gave me a much better meta prompt!)
Nudges:
Nudge 1] Think of symmetry and synonyms
Nudge 2] If the title is not helpful, change it around a little
Nudge 3] Remember that I like to use wordplay...even in my meta prompts
Nudge 4] Although the answer is a band, it is not a band
Reveal:
There are 7, symmetrical, answers that all have some reference to "snow" in their clue and have a likely synonym:
DUMMY = DOPEY
TIRED = SLEEPY
TIMID = BASHFUL
TIMID = BASHFUL
MERRY = HAPPY
IRATE = GRUMPY
BONES=DOC
Along with a slight change to the title to make it Snow White, and the mention of the Evil Queen and her apple, hopefully that brought that merry group who dug rocks daily - a rock group of course - to mind and Seven Dwarfs popped into your head.
This played considerably harder than I ever thought it would, and for that I am sorry, but 44 people struggled through it and I am thanking each and every one of them. One more from me tomorrow and then a two week vacation from "tom foolery".
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