"Cheery Dude"

Great puzzle! And Happy Birthday! I had quite a few wrong answers before I figured out the hint for the second song ;)

Happy

Crosshare as picky, but I got it to work on the second try. Happy Birthday! And thank you for giving us all a fun present.

Happy Birthday, Peter!

Very clever. I saw the 6 and 4 letter theme answers and title and my wife saw the four corners, so it was a good team effort.

Mechanism(s): || Each themer and title make up a 6 letter and 4 letter word. These words spell in order, my name.

In the corners THEY SAY ITS YOUR

On the Forum main page at the bottom: BIRTHDAYS Happy Birthday to: Abide (64)||

Happy Birthday! Nice one! Saw the corners, then your name, but it took me several more hours to clue into the word lengths.

Happy Birthday, Peter! I was thinking "ABIDE" might be referencing "Let It Be" but it was not...to be. Also considered The Ballad of John and Yoko, since it references Peter (Brown), but figured that was too deep a cut

Happy Birthday!

I got Birthday right away and I was pretty sure it was When I'm Sixty-four, but it took me a bit to justify the second song. Happy Birthday, Peter! And thanks for the puzzle.

Oh, and yes, we still need you, and yes, we’ll still feed you (puzzles:) !

Happy birthday! I still don't know how I'm supposed to get to the second song. I see THEY SAY ITS YOUR for the first one, and I see PETER ABIDE in the initials of the long entries. The highest entry number is 63. I see YEARS GO but then it falls apart. DOUBLE EDGE might be telling me to look at the down edges, where I see a homophonic YEN OAR ENDEAR, which is what, DESIRE OR LOVE? And I get that the birthday boy is likely a cheery dude, but how does that help? Maybe I'll scroll down and read the comments. Did I say happy birthday?

Very clever. Happy Birthday, Peter. Personally, I stopped counting a while back...

Well I had this early on, but apparently the program did not like 64. I did not get it the way I should, I got "They Say It's Your..." and Peter Abide (also Cheery=Happy ? Dude=Peter Abide) and I guessed from hearing him and knowing some of his history that Peter was in his sixties. But when I entered Birthday When I'm 64 it said incorrect). It was only when Peter nudged me to look at the theme entries broken in two that I got the 64 and realized I must have to spell it out. Thank goodness you don't live on a hill!! Nice MMM Peter.

Crosshare accepted “Im” but not “I’m” ?!?! But no matter - taking out pesky punctuation fits with my being nudged to remove the comma from (6, 4) lol - thank you Peter! Happy Birthday!

definitely not in my wheelhouse (beatles remind me of a bad college roommate so ive never cared to listen), i was lucky to take a step back and spot the lyrics in the corners, and thinking about birthdays led me to try when im 64, but i did not recognize the (6,4) going on in the themers and title, so i am a dumb

anyway, happy birthday... its not fair that youre the one giving us presents too

I kept looking at the 6 4 enumeration and was sure one of the answers must be LOVELY RITA, the only Beatles song with that enumeration. Then my husband spotted the four corner words.

Happy Birthday Peter....awesome one. Had the birthday pretty quickly .... took a bit to see the second half. Loved it.

LOL I'm a dolt. Had When I'm Sixty-Four pretty quickly, just from the enumeration of the themers. Then saw the name and figured out the motivation for the puzzle. But didn't realize that I should be able to get the second one from that until it was pointed out. I guess I should have looked at the corners too. :) Excellent stuff as always. Thanks!

I hadn't even spotted the mechanism for "Birthday" yet, but I guessed the significance of the 64 and almost posted Happy Birthday on the forum. Glad I held off, but now that I'm here, happy belated!

Happy Birthday and what a gift you gave to us to celebrate! I come to you from the frontlines of Beatlemania having been 13 in 1964, seeing them live that year. Here we are all of these years later and I love them even more. My picture is even in Paul McCartney's The Lyrics!! No kidding. And now, thanks to you Pete, Tantum Ergo is what's stuck in my head!! LOL. (You can't take the North Jersey Catholic School out of the girl).

Very, very clever! Have a great one, youngster!

Let me join the chorus of happy birthdays here, and what a terrific puzzle, Peter! Saw the PETER ABIDE right away, and with pronouns THEY and YOUR, it had vibes of I ME MINE. But I got by with juuuuuust a little help from my friends. Cheers!

Thank you and Happy Birthday, Peter! What a Bright Idea for a special Double-Edged puzzle! I find it so interesting how some people see one song first and strive for the other, while others see the other first and struggle for the one others had little trouble with. These puzzles are always so "Different strokes for..." which makes them so wonderful!

Happy 6,4th Birthday Peter. LMAO at 28D. Thanks as always! The End.

Happy Birthday! I saw PETER ABIDE in the themers almost immediately, but it took me awhile to figure out it was your birthday and the connection to the Beatle songs! Fun puzzle!

A belated Happy Birthday Peter!! And wow. You are a whole 33 days older than me, you ol' geezer :D

I saw your name in the theme entry initials but wasn't aware of the other significant details.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!. Ideally,, someone else would have constructed this one for Peter, but who knew?

I've often wondered about that deal where I sell my soul to the devil for eternal youth. Alas, I never got the offer. OTOH, some people, apparently, never even need to consider it.

Happy birthday + 2 (days) as well .

Curiously I found both songs differently. First, based on nudges 2 & 3, I counted the total number of letters in the 5 themers plus the four corners, which happens to add up to 64. Coupled with the last nudge, I intuited that you were celebrating your 64th birthday, which gave me both song titles. Missed what the four corners spelled out... Well done.

Reading this thread, I realize that the 6-4 read as 64 (age) had been completely lost on me. I noticed 6 and 4 but when you nudged to think of it “collectively” I started looking for 10-letter Beatles songs! . Also, I was expecting the answer to be 2 words like the themers (maybe consisting of 10 letters?) — so… “Abide” could be “Wait” (a Beatles song)… what could be the one for Peter? Is there a song called Piper? Apostle? Saint? (And if the word is 6 letters that would be spectacular.) Finally, since all these words acrostic to your name, I tried looking for Beatles song titles that would acrostic to CHEERY DUDE… but of course not possible. So… the nudges pointed to some of what I had already seen, but must say that I never saw the corners until that nudge! This really was well constructed! Just turned out for me to have too many other ways keep trying to use the data I saw, to go looking for other things (like those 4 corners or the birthday comment on the muggles site… and I may have been accessing this on the day after anyway.)

I seem to frequently miss point numbers of letters into numbers for other uses and will miss turning two numbers into multidigit numbers (and vice versa). I'd say I miss it enough to claim it's a "special weakness of mine".

I hope the Dude Abided on this 64th.

My solving buddy suggested I try this one, and it is really well done! Thanks!

Finally looking back at this puzzle so I can take it off my clipboard. I submitted many different times, different iterations, but I kept getting that silly crying emoji. I saw on the Muggles forum that I was on the solved list, but I couldn't figure out what was wrong with my submission on Crosshare. I realize now it was probably because I kept putting the word "and" between the two song titles, which was not part of the correct answers accepted. Or maybe I included/omitted apostrophes. Now I know to exclude any extraneous words/punctuation in Crosshare submissions. Thanks for a great puzzle, Peter, and happy much belated birthday!